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Iraq
Top Kurdish ISIS leader killed in Mosul
2015-03-30
[RUDAW.NET] The top Kurdish ISIS leader, reportedly responsible for the death of dozens of Kurdish civilians, was killed in coalition air strikes in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said Sunday.

"Ziad Salim Mohammad Ali al-Kurdi, the top ethnically Kurdish ISIS leader, has been killed by US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes last night in Mosul," the KRG's National Security Council said in a statement.

It said that al-Kurdi, who was "also known as Mansur, had joined the al-Qaeda terrorist group in 2004," and was tossed in the clink
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
by coalition forces in 2006.

It added that al-Kurdi was later affiliated with ISIS and "had been in charge of several military operations," including assaults on the Kurdish towns of Gwer and Makhmur, some 80 kilometers south of Erbil.

"Dozens of Kurdish civilians and Iraqi people have been murdered by al-Kurdi", the statement said.

Coalition Arclight airstrikes have been bombarding ISIS arsenals and positions in Syria and Iraq ahead of an impending attack on Mosul, which was captured by ISIS in June.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

an official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) from Mosul told Rudaw Sunday that ISIS had executed 20 of its hard boyz in Iraq who were trying to escape from the frontline and flee to Syria.

"The fighters were trying to escape from a battle near Mosul on Saturday," he said.

"All the hard boyz were reportedly from Iraq and were killed by ISIS imported muscle," he added.

Coalition Arclight airstrikes on ISIS bases and troops near Mosul on Saturday reportedly led to the deaths of several ISIS murderous Moslems.
Posted by:Fred

#2  And I thought the Kurdish were the good guys that all they wanted is a land of their own, but they were denied of their rights.

The Kurds, mostly yes, Ana. But Kurds can become religious fanagtics like anyone else, and this particular one goes back to the nasty days of Al Qaeda in Iraq cooking children in casseroles to serve to their parents as an object lesson.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-03-30 16:35  

#1  And I thought the Kurdish were the good guys that all they wanted is a land of their own, but they were denied of their rights.
I guess they are not many good guys in the area.
Posted by: Ana   2015-03-30 11:50  

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