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Russian airstrike kills around 40 ISIL militants in Syria, including one ‘linked to’ 2015 Paris attacks
2017-09-09
[Hurriyet Daily News] Russia said on Sept. 8 to have killed several top commanders 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group in an Arclight airstrike in Syria, including the "minister of war" who has a bounty on his head.

"As a result of a precision air strike of the Russian air forces in the vicinity of Deir al-Zor city, a command post, communication centre and some 40 ISIS fighters have been killed," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook.

"According to confirmed data, among the killed fighters are four influential field commanders including Deir al-Zor emir Abu Mohammed al-Shimali," the ministry said.

Apart from smuggling the recruits into Syria, al-Shimali was named by "several European intelligence agencies" as one of the organizers of the fatal November 2015 Gay Paree attacks, the ministry added.

Media reports have previously indicated that French Sherlocks established that at least three of the attackers arrived to La Belle France via refugee roots, with at least one of them obtaining a fake passport from ISIS.

Al-Shimali (also known as Tirad al-Jarba) was an Iraqi-born Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
citizen who defected from al-Qaeda to ISIS in 2015.

The same year, the U.S. State Department offered a bounty of up to $5 million for information leading to al-Shimali’s capture, describing him as "a key leader in ISIS’s Immigration and Logistics Committee" overseeing "smuggling activities, financial transfers, and the movement of supplies into Syria and Iraq from Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula."
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