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Top sergeant major plans to personally strangle, beat abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with e-tool

By Duffel Blog Staff · Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1533

THE PENTAGON — The U.S. military's senior enlisted man says he will personally travel to Syria soon to personally beat ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the head with an entrenching tool, sources confirmed today.

Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford, vowed to strangle and bludgeon al-Baghdadi if the terror group leader does not surrender.

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