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Iraq
Death of Islamic State’s education minister confirmed after year of his murder
2018-07-28
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The identity of a German 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....
leader, of Egyptian origins, has been confirmed, after being killed last year in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, German security sources were quoted saying on Friday.

The sources said that the identity of Reda Siyam, who used to be the group’s education minister, has been confirmed after a long period of time, DPA reported.

Siyam, left Germany in 2012 and joined the bad boy group in Syria, before he became in charge of the group’s education department in Mosul. He used to live in Berlin, where his wife stays.

According to the report, the German authorities expect return of one third of jihadists to Germany, indicating that around 1000 suspects left Germany since 2013 and joined the group as well as other terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.

Around 150 jihadists from German origins were killed in conflict zones, according to estimates.
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Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913   2018-07-28 15:56  

#1  German Islamic State leader, of Egyptian origins, has been confirmed, after being killed last year in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
I expected someone named Hans, or Dietrich, and got German-Egyptian-Iraq(Mosul)...
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-28 12:14  

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