Russia Killing the Kaliph is bad news for American neocons who created him in the first place.

No Daesh/ISIL means no instilling fear among the US public, no argument for war budget, no sectarian violence in ME, no twisting Arabs to buy useless armaments. Peace is bad business for the Military Industrial Complex.

Just like Osama bin Ladin this Abu-Bakr will be kept "alive" for years after he had died, then "killed" at the time suitable for MIC in a "daring" raid by SEAL team 6 with the collusion of the locals. They are part of the same Marines team that was made ketchup by Hezbollah in 1983 when almost 300 were dispatched by a single bomb.

How come it is always Russia that ends up killing the terrorists?