| Question marks can now be checked off. |
...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, the Pentagon said Tuesday, also confirming the death in Syria of a French jihadist.
Abu Bakr al-Turkmani died September 10 in a strike in Tal Afar in northern Iraq, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook told news hounds.
"He was an ISIL administrative emir, he was part of al-Qaeda in Iraq before joining ISIL and was a close associate to multiple ISIL big shots in Iraq," Cook said, using an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group.
Cook also confirmed the death of French jihadist David Drugeon, who died in an
Drugeon was a member of a network of veteran Al-Qaeda operatives sometimes called the Khorasan Group, which plots attacks against the West, Cook said.
"As an explosives expert, he trained other forces of Evil in Syria and sought to plan other attacks against Western targets," he added.
AFP reported Drugeon's death on September 11.
He was born in 1989 and had converted to Islam aged 13 before drawing close to ultraconservative Salafist Moslems.