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Iraq
Prominent Islamic State leader killed in explosion on Salahuddin borders: Official
2018-04-09
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A prominent 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....
member has been killed in an kaboom on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, an official announced on Sunday.

"We have information on a mysterious kaboom inside a rest house on the outskirts of Mutaibija, on borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, which left one of the leaders, known as ’the dwarf’, killed" Sadiq al-Husseini, head of the security committee of Diyala provincial council, told AlSumaria News.

"Mutaibija has become one of the shelters for many IS members and leaders recently," Husseini said calling for a military operation to eliminate presence of the holy warrior group there.
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