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Afghanistan
13 key ISIS leaders killed in MOAB bombing in East of Afghanistan
2017-04-20
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least thirteen key leaders 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group offshoot loyalists were killed in the US Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan, involving the GBU-43 bomb.

The Ministry of Defense deputy front man Mohammad Radmanish said the Indian, Pak, and Tajik nationals are among those killed.

He said the 13 ISIS leaders killed in the Arclight airstrike were key members of the terrorist group.

In the meantime, sources privy of the development have said the senior ISIS leaders killed in the Arclight airstrike have been identified as Mumtaz and Afsar from Orakzai agency of Pakistain, former Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
leader Shahidullah Shahid and another holy warrior of the same group Omran.

The sources further added that the other leaders killed in the raid have been identified as Aftab, a resident of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

province of Pakistain, and Mohammad and Alogita from India.

A Tajikistan holy warrior identified as Sediqi, Noorak, Hamid, and Haji Saeed, residents of Afghanistan were also killed in the Arclight airstrike.

The bomb was dropped around 7:30 pm local time on Thursday, a move which was widely welcomed by the local residents and tribal elders of Nangarhar.

A number of the tribal elders appeared in a gathering after the Arclight airstrike was conducted on Friday and urged for further strikes to clear the province from the presence of ISIS holy warriors.

The Ministry of Defense Chief of Staff Gen. Murad Ali Murad said earlier this week that the number of the holy warriors killed in the Arclight airstrike has reached to 95.

Speaking during a presser on Sunday, Gen. Murad said the corpse count could rise as the clearance operation is underway after the bomb was dropped

The Arclight airstrike has resulted into the elimination of the strategic hideout of the terrorist group in Nangarhar, Gen. Muad said, adding that the civilians did not suffer any casualties.

Posted by:Fred

#1  "Bring out your dead!"
Posted by: gorb   2017-04-20 22:14  

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