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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'More than 1,000 jihadists killed' in US-led Syria strikes
2014-12-24
[Ynet] US-led air strikes in Syria have killed more than 1,000 jihadists in the past three months, nearly all of them from 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....
 group, a monitoring group said Tuesday.

"At least 1,171 have been killed in the Arab and international air strikes (since September 23), including 1,119 jihadists of the Islamic State group and Al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
 Front," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists and medics across the war-ravaged country for its information.
The Times of Israel breaks down the deaths as follows:
Among those killed were 1,046 members of the IS group, 72 were members of Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front, while another was a jihadist prisoner whose affiliation was unknown, the Observatory said in a statement.

The remaining 52 were civilians.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  So we've been bombing the crap out of them for two months and only killed 1100. Dang that's lousy shooting if you ask me, my mech company killed that many in an afternoon up near the Cambodian border...
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-12-24 22:55  

#1  It's a start.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-12-24 10:01  

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