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Iraq
Report: Mosul resistance cell kills key ISIS leader
2015-04-24
[Rudaw] An armed anti-ISIS group operating in the bad boy-held city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
has claimed the liquidation of the military attache of His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, the self-proclaimed caliph 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....
"A special force of the Free Officers Movement bumped off Wisan Kanan, Baghdadi's military assistant, in the Mosul's neighborhood of Al Faisaliah," Mohammad Bahaj, a member of the Free Officers Movement, told the Al-hadath news on Thursday.

According to Bahaj, Kanan was one of the most prominent ISIS military leaders in Mosul and before served as a leader with Al-Qaeda. Bahaj claimed Kanan was placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
by the US forces in Iraq in 2010, and upon his release joined The Nusra Front in Syria and then ISIS.

The Free Officers Movement was established in June by 490 former officers of the Baathist regime in order to confront ISIS in Mosul.

Over the past two months, the group has claimed the killing of several ISIS leaders. In November, the Free Officers Movement took responsibility for the liquidation of Abu Shahab al Suri, the ISIS leader was in-charge of the western part of Mosul city.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Now SPOD, to paraphrase sergeant Colon "It's all tribal."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-04-24 14:53  

#2  Yesterday's Burg had an article where members of a given tribe were fighting on both sides.

Geez, this is almost as complicated as a Ludlum spy novel

Why? Just think "civil war" and it becomes understandable.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-04-24 14:52  

#1  Now I am really confused.

We have Baathists on both sides of the fight in Iraq???

Geez, this is almost as complicated as a Ludlum spy novel
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2015-04-24 08:58  

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