U.S. special operations forces had planned to capture the Islamic State’s reputed No. 2 man alive. They wanted to bring him in, lock him up and then interrogate the daylights out of him.
Then, oh damn! Something went wrong and the commandos were forced to fire on the vehicle carrying Abd a-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli.
He’s now dead. Too bad, right? Not at all.
The guy killed in the U.S. commando raid is thought to be the finance minister for ISIS. He’s also thought to have been able to step into the terror cabal’s commanding role if anything were to happen to Enemy No. 1.
Well, he ain’t taking anything over now.
This is the kind of result we should hope for in this war against the Islamic State.
Does it mean the end of the murderous cult? No.
It does, though, put a seriously gaping hole in its command-and-control structure.
Sure, it would been preferable to capture the guy and question him. U.S. interrogators could have pulled a treasure trove of valuable information from him.
His death, though, means one more key ISIS leader is rotting in hell.
Keep up the fight.