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Top salafist commander killed in southern Aleppo
[ALMASDARNEWS] Pro-jihadi social media accounts mourned, yesterday, the military commander of Ansar al-Islam salafist
...also known as Wahhabis, salafists are against innovation in religion or in anything else. They eat the same things every meal of every day and all their children are named Abdullah or Mohammed. Not all salafists are takfiris, but all takfiris are salafists. They are fond of praying five times a day and killing infidels...
group, Abu Leith al-Tunisi, was killed during festivities with the Syrian Army in southern Aleppo.

The terror chief was killed while repelling the government troops at Al-Mahroukat Hilltop, located to the south of the strategic Ramouseh district. A number of jihadists from the same hardline group was also reported dead including Muhajer al-Kurdi, Abu Zakaaya al-Kurdi and Habib al-Kurdi.

The myrmidon Kurdish Sunni group was first established in Iraq in 2001 and fought the American-led forces following the 2003 Iraq invasion. With the outbreak of the Syrian war, the group established itself in the war-torn country and participated ‐ along with other jihadi factions ‐ in several battles against the Syrian Army.

On August 2014, part of the group pledged allegiance to the self-proclaimed 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), while the rest continued to function as an independent organization.


Posted by: Fred 2016-08-21
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