Nigerian Air Force Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 3 ISWAP Commanders, Other Fighters In Borno | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/dRMyIslFsQ pic.twitter.com/8znCU7iDk2
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai has reportedly killed three commanders of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of West Africa Province (ISWAP), and several other fighters in the Marte and Kukawa areas of Borno State.
The ISWAP commanders killed by the NAF
...KABOOM!...
s on Wednesday include Abou Maimuna, Abou Zahra and Commander Saleh.
A counter-insurgency expert focused on the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, reports that the operations were coordinated by the new Air Component Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Air Commodore UU Idris, after NAF Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft spotted the gunnies moving in a canoe.
Makama reports that intelligence sources said that the fighters were killed in successive strikes by the attack aircraft as they attempted to flee the location.
Sources confirmed that the three ISWAP Commanders and some of their lieutenants on the canoe were killed during the strikes while other strikes were carried out around Ali Sherifti or Kwatan Shalla around Kukawa axis where another unconfirmed number of ISWAP bad boyz were potted.