[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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) group's front man confirmed on Tuesday the killing of the holy warrior organization's second in command in a U.S. air strike earlier this year.
"America is rejoicing over the killing of Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi and considers this a great victory," Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said in an audio recording posted on holy warrior websites.
"I will not mourn him... he whose only wish was to die in the name of Allah... he has raised men and left behind heroes who, God willing, are yet to harm America," he added.
Adnani did not say, however, in what circumstances Qurashi died.But the White House, in an announcement on August 22, said that Qurashi, whose real name is Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, was killed on August 18 in a U.S. air strike near the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
It said the strike targeted a vehicle and also killed an IS "media operative" known as Abu Abdullah.
The U.S. National Security Council said at the time that Hayali was IS 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...
's senior deputy.
| Hayali was reportedly a former Iraqi officer from the era of Saddam Hussein. |
In its August announcement the White House also said that Hayali "was in charge of ISIL operations in Iraq, where he was instrumental in planning operations over the past two years, including the ISIL offensive in Mosul in June 2014," using another name for ISIS.
Like many senior Iraqi holy warriors, before joining the ISIS group, Hayali had been a member of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi faction.
He was reportedly a former Iraqi officer from the era of Saddam Hussein.