[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The second-in-command of 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Alaa al-Afri, has reportedly been killed following a US-led
According to Iraqi government officials, al-Afri was killed while attending a meeting at a mosque in Tal Afar.
He had been meeting dozens of murderous Moslems who also died in the strike, Iraq's foreign affairs ministry said Wednesday.
According to reports, al-Afri assumed acting command of the ISIS terrorist group last month after 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...
, the group's self-declared "caliph", was injured in a separate air strike in March.
Al-Afri is a physics professor and longtime bigwig of the ISIS terrorist group who has published dozens of publications and religious studies.
He has reportedly trained in AFgahnistan from 1998 onwards as he is thought to have know al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as
Mister Bones...
Described as the strongest men in ISIS after al-Baghdadi, al-Afri is thought to have acted as the link between al-Baghdadi, his inner circle and ISIS's network of emirs inprovinces across their self-proclaimed caliphate.
| An Nahar adds: |
U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing the air war against the IS group in Iraq and Syria, said "we can confirm that coalition aircraft did not strike a mosque as some of the press reporting has alleged."
The statement came after Iraq's ministry of defense said the U.S.-led coalition had gone after several big shots of the IS group, including the outfit's second-in-commmand, in a strike on a gathering in the Martyrs' Mosque in Tal Afar's al-Ayadiya district.
The U.S. military also said it had "no information to corroborate" that the IS group's second-in-command, Abu Alaa al-Afari, had been killed.