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Iraq
Iraq Claims Responsibility for Killing Prominent ISIS Leader, Contradicting US Account
2023-04-06
Responding to this story from yesterday.
[Shafaq News] Iraq's National Intelligence Service grabbed credit for killing Khaled Ahmed al-Jubouri,
...more fully and with alternate spellings Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri...
a prominent ISIS leader, denying the American story that a US operation in Syria killed the terrorist.

According to the Agency, al-Jubouri, also known as Yacoub al-Muhajir, allegedly planned terrorist attacks in European countries.

The Intelligence Service said it targeted him in Syria's Idlib province after an arrest warrant had been issued against him.

The statement claimed that al-Jubouri, who had previously been a member of al-Qaeda, was a prominent figure in ISIS, holding positions such as military official for areas outside Nineveh, a security official in the state of eastern and northern Nineveh, and governor of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
(in ISIS terms).

The official Iraqi statement came after the US Central Command had previously grabbed credit for killing al-Jubouri in the northern countryside of Idlib.

The US Central Command statement asserted that no non-combatants were killed or injured in operation.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2   "It was us who done it!"
Posted by: jpal   2023-04-06 15:49  

#1  Somebody's keeping score.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-04-06 15:39  

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