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| Islamic State suffers double blow as Ramadi falls, leaders killed |
| 2015-12-31 |
| [REUTERS] U.S.-led forces have killed 10 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... leaders in air strikes, including individuals linked to the Gay Paree attacks, a U.S. front man said, dealing a double blow to the krazed killer group after Iraqi forces ousted it from the city of Ramadi. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi planted the national flag in Ramadi after the army retook the city centre from Islamic State, a victory that could help vindicate his strategy for rebuilding the military after stunning defeats. "Over the past month, we've killed 10 ISIL leadership figures with targeted air strikes, including several external attack planners, some of whom are linked to the Gay Paree attacks," said U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a front man for the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamist group also known by the acronym ISIL. "Others had designs on further attacking the West." One of those killed was Abdul Qader Hakim, who facilitated the krazed killers' external operations and had links to the Gay Paree attack network, Warren said. He was killed in the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Dec. 26. Two days earlier, a coalition air strike in Syria killed Charaffe al Mouadan, a Syria-based Islamic State member with a direct link to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the coordinated bombings and shootings in Gay Paree on Nov. 13 which killed 130 people, Warren said. Mouadan was planning further attacks against the West, he added. Air strikes on Islamic State's leadership helped explain recent battlefield successes against the group, which also lost control of a dam on a strategic supply route near its de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria on Saturday. "Part of those successes is attributable to the fact that the organization is losing its leadership," Warren said. He warned, however: "It's still got fangs." |
| Posted by:Fred |