Omar al Shishani, the Chechen commander who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham last year, was recently pictured while addressing a large contingent of ISIS fighters at a captured Syrian airbase. The photographs, below, were obtained by The Long War Journal.
While the exact location of the gathering was not disclosed, it is believed that al Shishani gathered the ISIS force at a captured Syrian military base in Al Bab or Manbji, towns north of Aleppo. The gathering took place in front of what appears to be an ammunition bunker or aircraft hanger. Al Shishani is believed to be basing his operations in Aleppo from the two towns.
The red-bearded al Shishani, pictured below, is standing beneath the black banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
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Looks like a nice target to me
How nice it would be to drop a couple of 2k bombs right in the middle of them all.
Who are the guys in blue,
3rd photo upper left side?
If only they could cease targeting fellow Mujahideen and channel all their effort annilating the Syiah.
What I find interesting, though it is difficult see completely, is how fully uniformed or “geared up” these fighters are. This isn’t some ragtag assembly and they are apparently well funded.
A force of that size requires a lot of money and a long tail of support. We don’t get the meeting memos, don’t know where the money comes from, and can’t make the supply train a little more difficult?
It is truly absurd to not have an active stealth drone program operating over this hell hole. We only need to get lucky several times and ISIS is so atrited as to be useless.
Pictures were taken at the NE corner of the RASIN EL ABOUD Air Base out side of Shekh Ahmad, Syria