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U.S.-led airstrikes kill 4 Fateh al-Sham commanders in Idlib
2017-01-03
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] U.S.-led air strikes on Sunday killed 4 senior commanders of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
in northern Idlib province,sources said.

... killed in two air strikes. The first targeted a car carrying Khatab al-Qahtani, Fateh al-Sham Emir in Hazzano and Abo Motasim al-Deri, Shariah principal in the town...
Field source said the commanders of formerly known Nusra Front were killed in two air strikes. The first targeted a car carrying Khatab al-Qahtani, Fateh al-Sham Emir in Hazzano and Abo Motasim al-Deri, Shariah principal in the town.

The second air raid conducted in the town of Sarmada, targeted a vehicle carrying Abo Omar Turkistani, a commander in the front and another commander was not possible to identify, and both were killed as well.
We had the news about Abu Omar's demise yesterday.
People in the northern countryside of Idlib reported to Zaman al-Wasl that US-alliance warplanes kept flying all the day in Northern countryside of Idlib and Western countryside of Aleppo before being able to target the four commanders.

The liquidation operations followed the nationwide ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and had been announced by Russia Dec. 28 and put in effect Thursday Dec 29 midnight Syria's time. The Syrian ceasefire excluded Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and 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....
The ceasefire agreement was not clear in the beginning in regard to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham when Russian announced the cease fire truce, as the Syrian opposition factions did not mention excluding it from the agreement, while Tukey mentioned that the agreement excluded all organization on UN’s terrorist list, till Russia made clear and excluded the Front from the agreement.
Posted by:Fred

#3  if we're smart we are using ISIS intel in AlQ territory and AlQ intel in ISIS territory to get targets.
Posted by: lord garth   2017-01-03 14:55  

#2  We too are killing ourselves at an alarming rate. Your cellie is not your friend.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-03 07:46  

#1  It would be one thing to carpet bomb a town, or a large military installation and, as a bonus, get the commanders.
But this precise targeting must be driving their counter intel guys nuts. HOW DID THEY KNOW? WHO DO THEY HAVE ON THE INSIDE? And the counterintel guys might be suggesting/requring various moves, transfers, purges, extra comm security, etc. all reducing efficiency.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2017-01-03 07:06  

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