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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US confirms Islamic State computer expert killed in air strike
2015-08-30
[Ynet] The US military confirmed on Friday that a British hacker who was one 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....
movement's top computer experts and active in encouraging people abroad to carry out "lone wolf" attacks was killed in Syria by a US air strike.

Junaid Hussain of Birmingham, England, was killed on Aug. 24 by a US military air strike on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqah, said Air Force Colonel Pat Ryder, a front man for US Central Command.

Hussain had been involved in "actively recruiting ISIL sympathizers in the west to carry out 'lone wolf' style attacks," Ryder said, using an acronym for the bad boy group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq.

Hussain was responsible for releasing personal information of around 1,300 US military and babus government employees in recent weeks, and "sought to encourage" attacks against them, US officials said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1   He clicked on the wrong "Share your location" radio button on his computer.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-08-30 14:28  

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