[IsraelTimes] Jihadist group announces death of Abu Jaafar al-Maqdesi, doesn't disclose circumstances of his deathThe 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....
group says one of the leaders of its affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been killed.
The jihadist group’s Aamaq news agency issued an announcement late on Sunday about the death of Abu Jaafar al-Maqdesi, calling him a martyr.
A photo of a young bearded man accompanied the report. IS says he was killed earlier this month, but did not disclose where or under what circumstances.
In February, Egypt launched a massive operation against jihadists in Sinai as well as parts of the Nile Delta region and the Western Desert, along the mostly non-existent border with Libya.