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2019-07-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

UK says British soldier who died fighting IS in Syria was killed by friendly fire

[IsraelTimes] Officials say a British special forces soldier who died fighting the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group in Syria was killed by friendly fire, rather than in a roadside kaboom as previously believed.

Sgt. Matt Tonroe died in March 2018 alongside US commando Master Sergeant Jonathan J. Dunbar while on a joint operation in Manbij, northern Syria, with American special forces. The Pentagon had said they died from improvised bombs.

But Sherlocks have concluded that Tonroe, 33, was killed by an explosive carried by a colleague.

Britannia’s Defense Ministry says that while "it was initially believed that Sgt. Tonroe was killed by enemy action," a subsequent investigation concluded he was killed by "the accidental detonation of explosives carried by coalition forces."

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