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US forces confirm killing of 4 more senior ISIS leaders in Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] US-Forces Afghanistan has confirmed the death of four senior advisers of the 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.... in Iraq and Syria-Khorasan in a strike that also killed the ISIS-K emir Abu Sayid in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... July 11, 2017. According to the US Forces in Afghanistan, the four eliminated ISIS-K leaders were confirmed as: Sheik Ziaullah, the ISIS-K emir of religion; Mulavi Hubaib, the senior commander in Watahpur Valley; Haji Shirullah, an ISIS-K commander and former Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin commander; and Assadullah, a senior ISIS-K shura member and a close associate of Abu Sayid. "We will be relentless in our campaign against ISIS-K. There are no safe havens in Afghanistan," said General John Nicholson, Commander, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. Gen. Nicholson further added "We will hunt them down until they are no longer a threat to the Afghan people and the region." Posted by: Fred 2017-07-31 |
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