Captured Hamas operative reveals paragliding attack plan

[Sally]

Maybe these nuts thought that Allah would be gliding them through the air and nobody would shoot up at them. Better they trained with the other uncivilized in Malaysia than a civilized paragliding spot like Torrey Pines near San Diego.

Captured Hamas operative reveals paragliding attack plan

Member of Gaza-based group confesses he trained in Malaysia to conduct raids on Israeli civilians from the air

BY ADIV STERMAN July 30, 2014

A highly trained Hamas operative captured by the IDF during the campaign in the Gaza Strip told investigators that he had prepared to carry out a terror attack against Israeli civilians using a paraglider, the Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday.

The Hamas detainee, who was recruited to the Islamist terror group in 2007 and joined one of the group’s special units in 2010, had taken part in a weeklong military-style exercise in Malaysia, along with 10 other members of the group, the Shin Bet said in a statement. During the exercise, which included paragliding training, the Hamas squad focused on perfecting raids from the air.

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Captured Hamas operative reveals paragliding attack plan | The Times of Israel

 

[Sunni Man]

LOL........That is some far fetched silly stuff. .....From what high place in Gaza were the paragliders going to launch from?? ...

 

[Indeependent]

LOL........That is some far fetched silly stuff. .....From what high place in Gaza were the paragliders going to launch from?? ...

The same tunnel in the sky the White Horse came from.

 

[Sally]

LOL........That is some far fetched silly stuff. .....From what high place in Gaza were the paragliders going to launch from?? ...

The same tunnel in the sky the White Horse came from.

Mr. Cuckoo feels frustrated that he was unable to get out of his place to train with them. Say, maybe these future birdies thought they would be able to glide off the tallest buildings in Gaza. There seems to be a few of them around. Perhaps Mr. Cuckoo could have put on his Superman costume which he wears at the Halloween party which is put on for the mental patients and shown these birdies how to leap over tall buildings.

 

[Sunni Man]

LOL........That is some far fetched silly stuff. .....From what high place in Gaza were the paragliders going to launch from?? ...

The same tunnel in the sky the White Horse came from.

You don't see me mocking Judaism.......why do you mock my religion? ..

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - make him sing like a canary...

US SpecOps Troops Capture 'Significant' ISIS Operative in Iraq
Mar 02, 2016 - A U.S. special operations assault force captured an ISIS operative during a recent raid in northern Iraq, an official confirmed.

The official would not discuss specifics of the raid, including the identity of the captured militant, due to the sensitivity of the mission. The operation was first reported on by CNN. A report in The New York Times described the operative as a "significant" member of the terror group. In December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that a special operations task force was headed to Iraq. Fox learned the 200-man unit, which included an assault force, intelligence cell and aviation element, would be based in Irbil in northern Iraq. In October, Army Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, a Delta Force commando, was killed during a mission to rescue of dozens of mostly Kurdish prisoners held by ISIS in northern Iraq.

In May, a Delta Force raid in eastern Syria resulted in the death of an ISIS commander, Abu Sayyaf, and the detention of his wife Umm. U.S. forces hope to gather evidence about the terror group's operations from its latest captive, as it did in the case of Umm Sayyaf. Umm Sayyaf remains held by the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. She was charged last month by the Justice Department with being part of a conspiracy resulting in the death of Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old American aid worker kidnapped by ISIS. Mueller was held as a sex slave by the Sayyafs and repeatedly raped by ISIS' self-proclaimed emir, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while in his custody. Mueller was "sexually abused by Baghdadi, who forced her to have sex with him," according to the Justice Department statement.

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked ISIL marching in Raqqa, Syria.​

A U.S. official told Fox News the latest so-called "kill or capture" mission follows the template of the raid that targeted the Sayyafs and will be the model for such missions going forward. The official also said there was "no plan to make a detention center," in Iraq, adding that captured ISIS operatives would be held either by the Kurds or the Iraqi government. Carter reiterated his desire to close the military detention center at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during a Pentagon press conference Monday. But Carter acknowledged closing the prison is currently against the law and that some prisoners are too dangerous to transfer to other counties.

US SpecOps Troops Capture 'Significant' ISIS Operative in Iraq | Military.com

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US defense officials questioning key IS operative
Thursday 3rd March, 2016 - An elite American Special Operations force has captured a key Islamic State operative during a raid in Iraq and is questioning him marking the US' emphasis now on ground operations to capture extremists and obtain intelligence, instead of killing them in air raids.

The US officials have refused to provide details about the raid or the IS operative detained. This is the second time during the US-led military operation against Islamic State that a top operative has been taken into custody. US defense officials have described the capture as a crucial development in battling the Islamic State. The detention and questioning of the IS operative marks Pentagon's new plan to disrupt ISIS operations in Iraq and Syria and gather intelligence that can be used to conduct follow-on raids and strikes. The militant has been held in Iraq for two to three weeks, officials said. He is being questioned at a detention facility in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region. Officials said the interrogation could take weeks or months, and that the man would then be turned over to Kurdish officials.

US defense officials have termed the development important because of his leadership position in the extremist group and the information they could glean from him. Captain Jeff A. Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, reiterated Tuesday that there were no plans to detain Islamic State captives long term. "Any detention would be short term and coordinated with Iraqi authorities," he said, according to NYT. Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, has said the commandos are to "go and scoop up paperwork and hard drives and other information that can be critical to our ongoing efforts as a central part of this strategy."

Col. Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for US Central Command, declined to divulge further information at a briefing Wednesday when asked about the recent raid in Iraq, which was first reported in the New York Times. "For operational security reasons, we're just not going to discuss their missions," Col. Ryder said of the special operations forces. A 200-strong unit, known as the expeditionary targeting force (ETF) has been arriving in Iraq to expand operations as part of the first major American combat presence in the country since the United States pulled out in 2011. The team is working with Iraqi and Kurdish forces to establish informant networks and to conduct further raids on ISIL safe-houses and compounds. The Pentagon has credited previous raids with uncovering valuable intelligence on ISIL's financial operations and security measures.

Information harvested from laptops, mobile phones and other materials recovered during a May 16 raid reportedly helped the United States identify, locate and carry out an air strike against an influential ISIL lieutenant, named as Abu Hamid, on May 31. The information gathered, including seven terabytes of data, provided critical information on how the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, tries to avoid being tracked by coalition forces. In May, US special operations forces conducted a raid in Syria that killed a high level Islamic State operative, Abu Sayyaf. His wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured by the US military, which also confiscated hard drives, computers, mobile phones, documents and other materials in what defense officials at the time described as a "treasure trove" of intelligence.

US defense officials questioning key IS operative