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2019-04-15 Africa Horn
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Airstrike Kills Deputy Leader of IS in Somalia
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[VOA News] The deputy leader 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....
group in Somalia has been killed in an Arclight airstrike , a Somali regional minister told VOA.
Abdisamad Mohammed Gallan, security Minister of the Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
region, told VOA Somali the airstrike that killed Abdihakim Mohammed Ibrahim, known as Dhoqob, took place Sunday between the villages of Hol Anod and Hiriro.
Gallan said the strike hit the vehicle Dhoqob and another passenger were travelling in. He said both men were killed but the other person has not yet been identified.
"The vehicle was burned," said a witness who didn't want to be named.
IS Somalia is led by Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin, a former scholar for al-Shabaab
...  the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
. In October 2015 he defected from the group and pledged his allegiance to IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
 ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
Dhoqob was Mumin's right-hand-man and has appeared in videos produced by the group. Mumin himself survived another airstrike in his mountainous hideout in Bari region in November 2017.
"Killing one of their top leaders will speed up their eradication," Gallan said.
Puntland officials have not commented on who carried out the attack but the U.S. military in Africa has been conducting relentless strikes against gunnies in Somalia. This year alone, U.S. has carried out more than 30 airstrikes, all of them against al-Shabaab.
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