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| Emir of Islamic State in Afghanistan maybe really dead this time |
| 2016-08-13 |
| [USATODAY] A U.S. ...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.... 's branch in Afghanistan, a Pentagon front man said Friday. Khan was killed July 26 as U.S. and Afghan Special Forces conducted operations against the terror group in southern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, Deputy Press Secretary Gordon Trowbridge said in a statement. His death comes as part of a major effort to crush the Islamic State, which became a growing threat in Afghanistan earlier this year. Khan, a former Pak Taliban member, became head of the region's Islamic State branch, known as the Islamic State in the Khorasan Province, in 2015, pledging allegiance to the group's overall leader 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... Trowbridge said Khan was known to directly participate in attacks against U.S. and coalition forces, and that his network terrorized Afghans, especially in Nangarhar, which borders Pakistain. The Afghan branch uses the Nangarhar area to train, equip, disseminate and control fighter pipelines, providing Islamic State commanders throughout Afghanistan with a continuous supply of fighters, he said "Nangarhar province has been a hotbed for (Islamic State) activity since the summer of 2015," Trowbridge said. "Khan’s death affects recruiting efforts and will disrupt (their) operations in Afghanistan and the region." Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain Omar Zakhilwal told Rooters that the strike also killed several senior Islamic State commanders and fighters. |
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