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Indonesia investigates reports top Islamic State commander killed
 [REUTERS] Indonesia is investigating reports from 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.... supporters that the most senior Southeast Asian commander of the murderous Moslem group was killed by U.S. air strikes in eastern Syria last week, counter-terrorism officials said. Online messages from Islamic State propagandists viewed by Rooters say Bahrumsyah, an Indonesian national, died after U.S. air strikes hit Hajin, north of the Syrian city of Abu Kamal, last Tuesday. A front man for Indonesia’s foreign ministry, Arrmanatha Nasir, said the embassy in Syria had made enquiries but had yet to confirm Bahrumsyah’s death. Two senior Indonesian counter-terrorism officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said they were taking the online reports seriously. "We are in the process of investigating," said one bigwig with Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agency. If the reports were true, it would become a "motivation to carry out reprisal attacks" in Indonesia, the bigwig said. A Pentagon front man, Eric Pahon, said U.S. aircraft were bombing the "general area" in eastern Syria on the day Bahrumsyah is believed to have died but was unable to confirm his death. As well as leading Katibah Nusantara, an armed unit comprising more than 100 Southeast Asians, Bahrumsyah also organized funding for the Salafist tough guys who captured part of the southern Philippines city of Marawi in a bloody siege last year, analysts and officials say. Posted by: Fred 2018-04-25 |
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