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Kurdistan says several IS senior leader killed in operations
 [Iraq News] Kurdish security authorities said Monday they killed several senior 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.... leaders in security operations in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Kirkuk. The region’s counter-terrorism office said it killed Islamic State’s "health minister", Salah al-Saqlawi, and other colleagues in a joint operation with the U.S.-led military coalition in Mosul, but did not specify the exact location of the operation’s target in Mosul. Also Killed in the assault were Abu Bakr al-Shishani, a Russian national, and Abu Fatema al-Tunisi, a Tunisian national and an Islamic State senior finance official in Nineveh. The offensive killed 30 other myrmidons, according to the authorities. In Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Kurdish authorities said a senior Islamic State leader was killed in a joint operation by Kurdish police forces and U.S.-led international coalition troops. Eleiwi al-Hamadani, aka Abu Dhar, was killed by Kurdish homeland security forces from Erbil and coalition fighter jets. Abu Dhar was the Islamic State’s "Zakat department" in Kirkuk’s Hawija, a body carrying the Islamic term for a mandatory charity payment, the authorities said. Islamic State has lost many of its big shots and personnel since Iraqi government forces, backed by U.S.-led troops and volunteer militias, launched a major offensive in October 2016 to retake the city of Mosul, IS’s biggest stronghold in Iraq which fell to the bully boy group in 2014. It has also been swept with internal disputes related to combat, and many of its members were either reported assassinated or executed for slacking combat performance. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-21 |
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