[Ynet] Australia's most dangerous known 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 operative had been killed in a US Arclight airstrike in Iraq, the government said Thursday.
The United States had confirmed that Neil Prakash, also known as Abu Khaled al-Cambodi, was killed in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Friday, Attorney-General George Brandis said.
The 24-year-old Australian citizen of Cambodian and Fijian heritage converted from Buddhism in 2012 and traveled to Syria a year later.
The former rapper from Melbourne city featured in Islamic State recruitment videos, was linked to several attack plans in Australia and had urged lone wolf attacks against the United States.
"Prakash was a very important, high-value target," Brandis told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. "He was the most dangerous Australian involved with ISIS in the Middle East," Brandis added, referring to the faceless myrmidons as 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...
Attorney General George Brandis said Washington had told Canberra that Prakash died in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Iraq, on April 29 after Australia provided intelligence on his identity and location.
Prakash was linked to an alleged terror plot on Anzac Day last year, when Australia honors its war dead.
Since the start of their campaign, the U.S. military and its coalition partners have launched more than 12,000 air strikes against Islamic State and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said more Australians were in their sights.
U.S. authorities also told the government that Australian woman Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad was killed in an air strike near the Syrian city of Al-Bab on April 22, along with her Sudanese husband.
"Mohammad and her husband, Abu Sa'ad al-Sudani, were both active recruiters of imported muscle on behalf of ISIS, and had been inspiring attacks against Western interests," said Brandis.
She was the sister of Farhad Jabar, a 15-year-old who rubbed out police employee Curtis Cheng in Sydney last October. The teenager was killed in gunfire shortly afterwards.
Brandis said that between 50 and 59 Australians had so far been killed fighting for jihadists in Iraq or Syria. At least 110 more are still battling with Islamic State. 
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