[ARABNEWS] A Saudi mufti with the Islamic State (IS or Daesh) has been killed in Iraq by the country's armed forces, says an Iraqi news site, quoting an Iraqi military commander."Daesh mufti Abu Osama Al-Qahtani was killed inside a building in Baiji, Tikrit, along with four of his assistants in an air raid that targeted an IS meeting on Tuesday," Lt. Gen. Ali Al-Freiji, commander in Saladin province, was quoted by Waradana as saying.
Al-Qahtani apparently succeeded another Saudi, Othman Al-Asiri, as mufti of the bad boy Islamic State, after Al-Asiri was killed in Syria last year.
Al-Asiri, who had a Ph.D. in jurisprudence, was previously fired from the faculty of King Khalid University in Abha for sympathizing with the Al-Qaeda network. Al-Asiri had also been previously placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in the Kingdom for killing seven people in a car accident.
Sources said Al-Asiri had joined IS and had held several training sessions for group members in Aleppo and Latakia prior to his death.
Earlier reports said a number of Saudi snuffies have quit the Islamic State movement after they were disillusioned with the group's activities.
Known previously as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL), the group had been engaged in a deadly rivalry with other Sunni groups fighting to topple the government of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
.
It had executed or assassinated fighters of rival Islamist groups, such as the Nusra Front, and the Western-backed moderate groups.
Led by an ambitious Iraqi murderous Moslem known as His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, the Islamic State group unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the lands it has seized in Syria and Iraq. It proclaimed Al-Baghdadi the head of its new self-styled state and demanded that all Moslems pledge allegiance to him.