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Russia says its air strikes wounded al Qaeda leader in Syria
[SFGATE] Russia said Wednesday it carried out air strikes in Syria this week that critically maimed the leader of an al Qaeda-linked group and killed 12 other myrmidon commanders.

There was no immediate comment from fellow Lions of Islam or other Syria monitors on the fate of Abu Mohammed al-Golani, leader of the al Qaeda-linked Levant Liberation Committee.

Russia has been waging an air campaign in support of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
’s forces since 2015, helping them to make major advances against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, al Qaeda-linked bully boyz and mainstream rebels.

Syrian troops are currently closing in on the eastern city of Mayadeen, one of the last major Islamic State strongholds in the country.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian troops and allied snuffies have advanced to about six miles north of Mayadeen. The activist-operated Deir Ezzor24 says dozens of rockets and barrel bombs fell on Mayadeen and surrounding villages on Wednesday.

The Observatory said at least 20 people were killed in air strikes on a village north of Mayadeen, while Deir Ezzor24 said at least 15 were killed. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled Mayadeen and the surrounding areas in the past week.

The Observatory said the government advance has been preceded by a barrage of air strikes, counting over 1,000 since Friday.

Mayadeen has become the main hub for Islamic State myrmidons, including the group’s leaders, as its former strongholds in Raqqa, Deir el-Zour and djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
have come under attack.

U.S-backed Syrian forces and the Russia-backed Syrian military are in a race for control of territory in eastern Syria as they both battle the Lion of Islam group.

Al-Golani’s Levant Liberation Committee controls the northwestern Idlib province, on the other side of the country. The province recently has come under intense aerial attack. Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry front man, announced the wounding of the myrmidon leader.

As with other top murderous Moslem leaders, al-Golani’s death has been falsely reported in the past.

Konashenkov said Russia carried out the air strikes at some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location in Syria on Tuesday after receiving intelligence about an upcoming high-level meeting of the group’s leaders. He said 50 other Lions of Islam who were securing the gathering also were killed.

Syria's militant ex-Qaeda group denies leader injured in Russian strike

[Ynet] Syria's Tahrir al-Sham militant group denied in a statement on social media on Wednesday that its leader had been critically wounded in a Russian air strike and said he was in good health and performing his duties.

The Russian Defense Ministry said it had seriously injured Abu Mohamad al-Golani on Oct. 3 in an intelligence-led special operation while he was meeting his field commanders. Golani headed the Nusra Front, the former al Qaeda affiliate, before it merged with other groups to form Tahrir al-Sham.
Posted by: Fred 2017-10-05
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