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BREAKING: Islamic State says leader killed ‘in combat with enemies of God’
The Times of Israel article is time-stamped 6:31 p.m. I understand Israel local time is six hours ahead of Eastern Time, meaning the report was published at 12:31 p.m. ET. Also, ULULULULULULULULULULULULU!!
[IsraelTimes] Jihadist group gives no further details on death of Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, announces his replacement

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....
 jihadist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement.

A front man for the group said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed "in combat with enemies of God," without elaborating on the date of his death or the circumstances.

Speaking in an audio message, the front man identified the group’s new leader as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

Qurashi refers to a tribe of the Prophet Mohammed, from whom IS leaders must claim descent.

After a meteoric rise in Iraq and Syria in 2014 that saw it conquer vast swathes of territory, IS saw its self-proclaimed "caliphate" collapse under a wave of offensives.

It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, but sleeper cells of the Sunni Moslem krazed killer group still carry out attacks in both countries and claim attacks elsewhere in the world.

IS’s previous leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, was killed earlier this year in a US raid in Idlib province in northern Syria.

His predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, also in Idlib, in October 2019.

This tweet was attached to the article:


Rudaw spells the name Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi.
Al Ahram adds:
The front man did not provide details on the new leader, but said he was a "veteran" jihadist and called on all groups loyal to IS to pledge their allegiance.

Hassan Hassan, who authored a book on IS, said one "unprecedented" but possible scenario was that the Hashimi "was killed 'accidentally' during a raid or fighting without him being known to whoever killed him".

In October this year, US forces killed a "senior" IS member in a pre-dawn raid in northeastern Syria, the US military's Central Command said at the time.

It said a later air strike had killed two other senior IS members.

The US leads a military coalition battling IS in Syria.

In July, the Pentagon said it had killed Syria's top IS jihadist in a dronezap in the north of the country.

US Central Command said he had been "one of the top five" IS leaders.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 in September said security forces had arrested a "senior executive" of IS known as Abu Zeyd, whose real name was Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai.

Ottoman Turkish media said there were some indications Sumaidai might have been the IS leader.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-30
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