Following the news today that US elite forces had executed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf, ISIS supporters threatened to kill President Obama online. Vocativ reported:
Shaken by a daring U.S. military strike deep in ISIS territory, supporters of the extremist organization were vowing revenge for the killing of senior leader Abu Sayyaf or claiming the special operations mission never took place, a Vocativ analysis reveals.
If they took Abu Sayyaf, we will take Obama, one ISIS supporter posted in the hours after the raid, which took place near the eastern Syrian city of al-Amr.
@ebn_alkim لئن كان هدفكم قتل سياف فهدفنا قتل أوباما وعباد الصليب...فبإذن الله لنا صولات وجولات معكم ياعباد الصليب.
Translation: If your goal is killing Abu Sayyaf then our goal is killing Obama and the worshipers of the cross. We have attacks coming against you.
Elite American commandos carried out the rare, overnight military operation, killing Sayyaf, capturing his wife, and freeing a Yezidi woman believed to have been held as their slave, the Pentagon said Saturday. Defense Secretary Ash Carter heralded the mission as a significant blow to the Islamic State.
ISIS supporters also promised to behead President Obama.