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US Air Strikes Kill 46 Militants, Destroy ISIL Radio Station in Afghanistan
 [ALMANAR.LB] A total of 46 gunnies were killed and a radio station belonging to the so-called 'Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group was destroyed after US-led coalition forces carried out ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. eastern provinces overnight, government officials said Wednesday, two months after the group took to the airwaves in a sign of their growing reach. The Pashto-language "Voice of the Caliphate" beamed ISIL propaganda in irregular nightly broadcasts from The Afghan defense ministry said the program was broadcast from a moving vehicle and air strikes on Monday destroyed the transmission equipment hidden in the basement of a house in volatile Achin district. "The radio program has not been heard since Tuesday," Achin district governor Haji Ghalib told AFP. President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. recently vowed to "bury" the ISIL's affiliate in Afghanistan, while voicing alarm over their growing reach. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-05 |
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