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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iraq says 5 Islamic State leaders arrested, 40 others killed in operation in Syria
2018-05-12
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has announced arresting five 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....
leaders and killing 40 others in a major operation in Syria, saying those Death Eaters took part in attacks against Anbar and djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
A statement on Friday by the Security Media Center said "a major operation was carried out upon commands from the commander in chief of the armed forces, Haidar al-Abadi, and in collaboration with the Iraqi intelligence service and the Joint Operations Command. The operation resulted in arresting two IS leaders who took part in attacks against Anbar and Mosul.

The enjugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
were Saddam Omar Yehia al-Jamal, known as Abu Ruqaia al-Ansari, and Mohammed Hussein Hadar, known as Abu Saif al-Shouaity, according to the statement. In addition to "Essam abdul Qadir Ashour al-Zawbaie, known as Abu Abdul Haq al-Iraqi, Omar Shihab Hammad al-Karbouli, known as Abu Hafs al-Karbouli, Ismail Elwan Salman al-Eithawi, known as Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, who is one of His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
’s aides."

The arrests "were carried out in Syria in the border area with Iraq in the wake of an intelligence information.

According to investigations with them, crucial information were used to carry out an Arclight airstrike that targeted a meeting for the group’s so-called war authority, "which resulted in killing around 40 leaders, on top of them were Omar Abd Hamad al-Fahdawi, known as Abu Tareq al-Fahdawi, Abu Walid al-Sinawi, Abu Islam al-Kurdi, Ahmed Yehia Zidan," in addition to others.
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