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US airstrike kills ISIS 'Emir of Anbar Province' in Iraq
2016-05-10
[FOXNEWS] A U.S. Arclight airstrike on Friday killed four 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....
fighters in western Iraq, including a leader who appeared in ISIS execution videos and was considered an heir apparent to terror criminal mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Pentagon announced Monday.

The terror leader, Abu Wahib, was known as the "Emir of Anbar Province." The strike unfolded near al-Rutba, not far from the Syrian border, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told news hounds.

Wahib left an Anbar university, where he was studying computer science, to fight U.S. forces entering Iraq, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported. He beat feet from an Iraq-run prison in Tikrit in 2012.

Cook said Wahib's death marks another serious blow to ISIS leadership and would "further degrade its ability to operate, especially in Anbar Province."

Iraq had falsely reported Wahib's death in the past, but Cook said, "we're confident that this was a successful strike and I'll leave it at that."
Posted by:Fred

#1  "We found a forehead with an ugly unibrow, confirming his death"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-10 12:02  

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