U.S. Says It Captures ISIS Operative

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Wed Mar 02, 2016 at 10:23:53 PM EST
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The U.S. says it has captured an ISIS operative. This would be the first since Umm Sayyaf.

Like Umm Sayyaf, the Pentagon plans to question the operative and then turn him over to the Iraqis or Kurds for prosecution. At least the White House has no plans to fly these operatives here for prosecution.

Defense Department officials said that the United States had no plans to hold the detainee or others indefinitely, and that they would be handed over to Iraqi or Kurdish authorities after they have been interviewed. The officials said they did not intend to establish a long-term American facility to hold Islamic State detainees, and Obama administration officials ruled out sending any to the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Of course, that could change should a Republican be in the White House next year.

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You Mean if Trump was in the White House (none / 0) (#1)
by ScottW714 on Thu Mar 03, 2016 at 04:09:26 PM EST

Also changing, the ban on torture of those individuals, Trump thinks waterboarding isn't enough and even if it doesn't work, he thinks they deserve it anyways. So it would be for the fun of it more than actually trying to get information.

Takes a lot of effort to make GWB look like the responsible one.

I suspect we will hand them off so others can torture them. We are a country that loves locking people up who have never been here or committed no crime here. But not with ISIS, we are cool with them being locked up in prisons that probably aren't that secure.

Why ?

: Nopw Trumps Says (none / 0) (#2)
by ScottW714 on Fri Mar 04, 2016 at 03:48:43 PM EST

Donald Trump has reportedly reversed his position on ordering the military to use torture against America's enemies and to target family members of suspected terrorists, policies he has advocated while on the campaign trail.
I don't think his position has changed other than he said he would not order the military to break the law.

Capturee "top IS Chemical Arms engineer? (none / 0) (#3)
by Mr Natural on Wed Mar 09, 2016 at 11:53:58 AM EST

Not sure if this is the same guy, but here's the story:

BAGHDAD -- U.S. special forces captured the head of the Islamic State group's unit trying to develop chemical weapons in a raid last month in northern Iraq, two senior Iraqi intelligence officials told The Associated Press, the first known major success of Washington's more aggressive policy of pursuing IS militants on the ground.
U.S. officials said last week that the expeditionary team had captured an Islamic State leader but had refused to identify him, saying only that he had been held for two or three weeks and was being questioned.
The two Iraqi officials identified the man as Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, who worked for Saddam Hussein's now-dissolved Military Industrialization Authority where he specialized in chemical and biological weapons. They said al-Afari, who is about 50 years old, heads the Islamic State group's recently established branch for the research and development of chemical weapons.

- By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SUSANNAH GEORGE, AP, via Minneapolis Star-Tribune