{"id":15907,"date":"2016-07-14T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15907"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:33:50","slug":"so-long-omar-the-chechen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15907","title":{"rendered":"So long, Omar the Chechen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Omar the Chechen is dead.<\/p>\n

It took a while to confirm that the Islamic State leader had bought it in a U.S.-led attack, but the terrorist group has confirmed The Chechen’s death.<\/p>\n

So, what does this mean?<\/p>\n

To me, it means a couple of things.<\/p>\n

First, it signals that our efforts to eliminate terrorist leaders is gaining ground. The U.S. military — the one that some politicians keep saying is “losing” — is showing that it remains quite a capable fighting force.<\/p>\n

Second, The Chechen’s death should not be seen as a final “victory” in this ongoing war against the despicable terrorist organization. It only means that we must keep up the fight and must pursue the enemy — in the worlds of one-time GOP presidential nominee John McCain — “to the gates of hell” if need be.<\/p>\n

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Omar al-Shishani was born in what was once known as the Soviet Union. He was just 30 years of age.<\/p>\n

The fight must go on. There likely will be another madman who’ll step into Omar the Chechen’s shoes.<\/p>\n

His death, though, does suggest that ISIS has suffered yet another in a lengthening string of key tactical defeats.<\/p>\n

Let there be many more of them.<\/p>\n\n

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Omar the Chechen is dead. It took a while to confirm that the Islamic State leader had bought it in a U.S.-led attack, but the terrorist group has confirmed The Chechen’s death. So, what does this mean? To me, it means a couple of things. First, it signals that our efforts to eliminate terrorist leaders … Continue reading So long, Omar the Chechen<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[2348,2362,6031,5177],"class_list":["post-15907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-omar-the-chechen","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15910,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions\/15910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}