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Iraqi Security Forces kill prominent ISIS member in Kirkuk
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, Iraqi Ministry of Defense said, its forces killed the leader of the sniper detachment in the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS), nicknamed Abu Qutada, in Kirkuk.

In an ambush, the Mechanized Infantry Division of the Iraqi army managed to kill Abu Qutada and wound two of the murderous Moslem organization in the al-Bu Muhammad area in Wadi al-Shay in Kirkuk governorate, the ministry stated.

Wadi al-Shay is located southwest of the town of Daquq, about 40 km south of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
 where ISIS sleeper cells are still active in that vast area.

Simultaneously, the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) launched an eight-side operation in the Hamrin Mountain range in Diyala governorate, in the center of the country.

"The operation is targeting more than twenty targets of ISIS deployed over an area of 100 km," the front man for the Diyala area in the PMF, Sadiq al-Husseini, said.

The operation has come to block the void spaces, comb the rough hills, and secure more of the Kirkuk-Baghdad road, which passes in the northeastern part of Diyala," he added.
Posted by: Fred 2021-11-14
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