[Iraq News] Unknown gunnies rubbed out a preacher from 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
and a companion in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, sources said as government troops become closer to the group’s strongholds in central Mosul.
Alsumaria News quoted a local source saying that "Abu Huthaifa", an Iraqi, was bumped off along with another member in Zanjili, a district north of Mosul’s Old City, the target of current Iraqi forces operations in western Mosul.
According to the source, the attack, having occurred in areas under IS control prompted the holy warrior group to launch searches for perpetrators and arrest some suspects.
Earlier on Monday, Iraqi forces recaptured recaptured al-Sumoud district before storming the nearby al-Mansour, all near the city center.
Old Mosul is a major target for U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seeking to clear the western side of the city from murderous Moslems. It is home of a government compound, the recapture of which is believed to be highly decisive in ending the campaign in the government forces’ favor.
Shortly earlier, news reports quoted security officials saying the forces took over a major bridge leading to the Old City.