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Africa North
US wages air strike on ISIS leader in Libya: US officials
2015-11-15
[AlAhram] The U.S. military launched an air strike targeting the ISIS leader in Libya, U.S. officials told Rooters on Saturday, adding two F-15 aircraft were used in the attack.
Ynet adds:
An American Arclight airstrike has targeted and likely killed a top 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....
leader in Libya, in a strike that happened just as the Gay Paree terrorist attacks were under way, the Pentagon said Saturday.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the US strike targeted Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi national who was a longtime al-Qaeda operative and later became the senior Islamic State leader in Libya.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  "Drink UP!"
Posted by: Frank G   2015-11-15 14:01  

#3  Arclight?
Slowly I turned...
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-15 13:31  

#2  You're voting for Arclight or Dresden, Procopius2k?
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-11-15 12:49  

#1  Sometimes, when a 'movement' gets going, it finds its own leaders, so offing some here and some there, only slows it down a bit before another one steps forward. 'True Believers' just need someone, anyone to point the direction (particularly when they're just good for cannon fodder). At that point, you have to do introduce a new environment which is lethal to large numbers, not ones and twos.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-15 09:11  

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