[YNETNEWS] 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....
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...
, was said to be critically maimed in a US-led
The sources added that a number of other Islamic State leaders were killed in the strike that targeted a gathering of Islamic State leaders in Iraq's western province of Anbar. Two witnesses also told Rooters of the strike that targeted the gathering.
MP for Iraq's Anbar province, Mohammed al-Karbouli, told the Saudi network that coalition planes fired two missiles at a central area in the city of al-Qa'im, causing dozens of deaths and injuries.
The maimed were taken to the local hospital, and the attack led to the blocking of all roads in the area. Witnesses told Rooters Islamic State fighters had cleared a hospital so that their maimed could be treated. Islamic State fighters used loudspeakers to urge residents to donate blood, the witnesses said.
Residents said there were unconfirmed reports that Islamic State's local leader in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and his deputy were killed.
Iraqi security officials were not immediately available for comment on the report, and US officials would not confirm or deny whether Baghdadi, the group's overall leader, had been targeted.
One US official said that air strikes were carried out against a convoy near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, about 280 km (170 miles) from al-Qa'im, and against small Islamic State units elsewhere, but the US-led air strikes had not targeted an Islamic State gathering.
TV channel Al-Hadath said dozens of people were killed and maimed in the strike in al-Qa'im, and that Baghdadi's fate was unclear. Al-Qa'im and the neighboring Syrian town of Albukamal are on a strategic supply route linking territory held by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.