Majed Al-Leftawi
TEL AVIV – A Jordanian lawyer who supports ISIS mocked recent U.S. air strikes in Syria as "media firecrackers" and slammed President Obama as a "White House slave, a mule."
The derogatory comments were made by Majed Al-Leftawi in a recent television interview, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which provided a transcribe of the remarks.
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"The conquests will begin here [in the Levant] and will encompass the whole world,” Leftawi said.
The interview aired Sept. 2 on Al-Ghad Al-Arabi TV, a UAE channel broadcasting from the U.K.
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It's not the first time such language was employed by ISIS defenders against Obama.
Last week, a document authored by pro-ISIS cleric Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani ash-Sham depicted Obama as “the mule of the jews.”
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The cleric also mocked recent U.S.-led coalition strikes targeting ISIS.
Stated the document: “And O Obama, O mule of the jews. You are vile. You are vile. You are vile. And you will be disappointed, Obama. Is this all you were capable of doing in this campaign of yours? Is this how far America has reached of incapacity and weakness?”
On Saturday, U.S.-led coalition warplanes reportedly struck ISIS targets in Syria near the Turkish border an in the country’s east.
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