| These are two different ISIS leaders than were reported killed by coalition jets yesterday. |
[RUDAW.NET] Two of 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
's (ISIS) top local leaders in the town of Gayara, southern djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, were killed on Saturday in
"Today the coalition warplanes killed Mahdi Luizi, the ISIS Gayara Wali [governor], and Hamadi Khafaji, in charge of ISIS mortars," Ismat Rajab, a Kurdish official from Mosul, now in exile, told Rudaw.
The Iraqi army launched military operations to retake Gayara and Shargat, two strategic towns in southern Mosul, on June 18.
Gayara is a large town on the Tigris River, 80 kilometres south of Mosul.
By capturing Gayara and neighbouring Shargat, the Iraqi army will edge closer to Mosul, ISIS’ main stronghold in Iraq.
In the meantime, Baghdad announced another offensive against ISIS in Anbar province's far eastern town of Khalidiya Jazira, which has long been held by the krazed killer group.
"Following the control of Halabisa, Albu Alawan, and Albu Aifan, the Iraqi security forces in coordination with tribal fighters, Iraqi and coalition fighter jets, the Khalidiya Jazira operation was launched in eastern Ramadi," said Raji Issawi, deputy head of the security committee of Anbar Provincial Council.
Issawi added that "ISIS [ISIS] snuffies are fiercely defending. But the security forces are advancing according to military plans."
He suggested that the town will "soon be liberated."
Like Gayara, ISIS took over Khalidiya Jazira in mid-2014. It is considered an important stronghold of the murderous Moslems in eastern Ramadi. Located in the desert between Samarra and Ramadi, it is an ideological heartland for Islamic holy warriors, having been a stronghold of al Qaeda before the rise of Islamic State.