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Iraq
Airstrike kills Islamic State’s chief of training camps in Tal Afar
2017-08-03
[Iraq News] 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....
’s head of training camps in Tal Afar was killed in an Arclight airstrike that targeted his vehicle, a source was quoted saying.

"An Arclight airstrike conducted on Wednesday targeted a convoy in the western suburbs of Tal Afar, in west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
," a local source from Nineveh has told AlSumaria News. "According to the available information, IS head of training camps in Tal Afar and another prominent leader were killed."

"The holy warriors have been on high alert in the town fearing further Arclight airstrikes against its main headquarters," the source, who preferred anonymity, added.

On Tuesday, news reports said IS prominent vocalist abu Talha al-Shami was killed in an Arclight airstrike in the town. Strict measures were imposed by the group there after a prominent foreign female sniper was found slain in a narrow alleyway.

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