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2015-05-14 Terror Networks
ISIS acting leader al-Afri killed by US-led airstrike
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The second-in-command 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Alaa al-Afri, has reportedly been killed following a US-led Arclight airstrike.

According to Iraqi government officials, al-Afri was killed while attending a meeting at a mosque in Tal Afar.

He had been meeting dozens of murderous Moslems who also died in the strike, Iraq's foreign affairs ministry said Wednesday.

According to reports, al-Afri assumed acting command of the ISIS terrorist group last month after 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 group's self-declared "caliph", was injured in a separate air strike in March.

Al-Afri is a physics professor and longtime bigwig of the ISIS terrorist group who has published dozens of publications and religious studies.

He has reportedly trained in AFgahnistan from 1998 onwards as he is thought to have know al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones...
Described as the strongest men in ISIS after al-Baghdadi, al-Afri is thought to have acted as the link between al-Baghdadi, his inner circle and ISIS's network of emirs inprovinces across their self-proclaimed caliphate.
An Nahar adds:
The U.S. military on Wednesday denied that coalition aircraft bombed a mosque in Iraq after Baghdad officials said American-led warplanes had targeted Islamic State jihadists meeting at the mosque in Tal Afar.

U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing the air war against the IS group in Iraq and Syria, said "we can confirm that coalition aircraft did not strike a mosque as some of the press reporting has alleged."

The statement came after Iraq's ministry of defense said the U.S.-led coalition had gone after several big shots of the IS group, including the outfit's second-in-commmand, in a strike on a gathering in the Martyrs' Mosque in Tal Afar's al-Ayadiya district.

The U.S. military also said it had "no information to corroborate" that the IS group's second-in-command, Abu Alaa al-Afari, had been killed.
Posted by Fred 2015-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 Blew up a mosque eh?
Obama's breakfast menu, or is it those danged ole CIA rules again?
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-14 10:59||   2015-05-14 10:59|| Front Page Top

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