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Multiple IS leaders killed in U.S. airstrikes in Iraq: Pentagon
2014-12-20
[IraqiNews.com] U.S. Arclight airstrikes have killed several senior 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....
 (IS) leaders in recent weeks, blunting the group?s ability to fight Iraqi and Kurdish forces, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

?I can confirm that since mid-November, targeted coalition Arclight airstrikes successfully killed multiple senior and mid-level leaders within the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
 (ISIL)?, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement, using the group?s alternative name.

?We believe that the loss of these key leaders degrades ISIL?s ability to command and control current operations against Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), including Kurdish and other local forces in Iraq,? he said.

The success of these Arclight airstrikes demonstrates the coalition?s resolve in enabling the ISF to disrupt and degrade IS as they continue to regain control of their territory, he added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit.
Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed...
 another Pentagon statement said that U.S. and partner-nation military forces continued Arclight airstrikes on IS targets in Syria and Iraq Thursday, using fighter and bomber aircraft during six Arclight airstrikes in Syria and five Arclight airstrikes in Iraq.

The Arclight airstrikes in Syria destroyed seven IS fighting positions and an IS building and tactical unit. In Iraq, they destroyed an IS excavator, three IS vehicle and two IS tactical unit.

On the same day, U.S. President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
spoke by phone with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to discuss the political and security situation in Iraq and the progress of Iraqi Security Forces in their efforts to counter IS.

The president reiterated his commitment to supporting the ISF through training programs, provision of weapons and equipment, and Arclight airstrikes.
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