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Terror Networks
Coalition commander says most of Islamic State’s top brass killed
2017-03-03
[Iraq News] Most of commanders within 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....
supreme leader’s inner circle have been killed, with holy warriors’ numbers in Iraq’s djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
no more than 2000, according to a commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the holy warrior group.

" In fact, almost all of 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...
’s inner circle has been killed in the last six months, six to nine months; have been killed with precision strikes by the coalition. So that’s big shots", said Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.

"We assess right now that there’s somewhere between 2,000 plus or minus in and around western Mosul, including the area out to Tal Afar," Townsend told news hounds at a Pentagon briefing via a conference call from Baghdad late Wednesday, adding that the total of IS hard boyz in both Iraq and Syria stands between 12,000 and 15,000.

Posted by:Fred

#1  Perhaps the heart donor search isn't going so well after all.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-03 09:04  

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