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| Libya: report disclaims killing of IS leader | |
| 2015-11-17 | |
Libyan reports based on sources from Derna Sunday rejected the US claims that an American F-15 fighter jet killed the IS leader in Libya, Abu Nabil Al-Anbari. Sources from the Libyan Eastern city pointed out that Abu Nabil Al-Anbari, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was not killed in the strike and that the Iraqi-born IS
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook announced Saturday that al-Anbari has been killed and that the operation occurred prior to the attacks on the French capital, Paris. “Nabil’s death will degrade ISIL’s ability to meet the group’s objectives in Libya, including recruiting new ISIL members, establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United States,” Cook said. This is the first major US air operation against an IS “While not the first US strike against terrorists in Libya, this is the first US strike against an ISIL leader in Libya and it demonstrates we will go after ISIL leaders wherever they operate,” the Pentagon spokesman said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 I'm sorta hoping he was ballistic. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-11-17 20:28 |
| #2 Well when he left Libya was he self propelled or was he in a body bag??? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 2015-11-17 08:59 |
| #1 He has apparently left Libya "Curly-toed slippers, don't fail my maimed feets now!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-11-17 08:52 |