...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (ISIS) on its blacklist of terrorists, naming him as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that al-Mawli was named leader of the ultra-violent group after an October raid by US commandos killed its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The organization had earlier named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new head, but US officials acknowledged they knew little about him ‐ and later came to believe that the Islamic State group was using his nom de guerre.
Al-Mawli "was previously active in al-Qaeda in Iraq and is known for torturing innocent Yezidi religious minorities," Pompeo said.
"We’ve destroyed the caliphate and we remain committed to ISIS’s enduring defeat no matter who they designate as their leader," he said.
A US-led coalition, spearheaded on the ground by Syrian Kurdish fighters, crushed the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate that once stretched for vast stretches of Iraq and Syria ‐ but the group has inspired attacks much farther afield.
Al-Mawli was named a specially designated global terrorist, putting him on a list created after the September 11, 2001 attacks that makes any support to him a crime in the United States.
The State Department has already issued a $5 million bounty for information leading to al-Mawli’s capture.
A scholar in Islamic sharia law, al-Mawli rose through the ranks by issuing edicts to justify the persecution of the Yezidi, a campaign that the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
has described as genocide.
The jihadists killed thousands of Yezidis, who practice an ancient religion, and kidnapped and enslaved thousands more women and girls as they rampaged across the Middle East.
The Guardian, in a January article that cited intelligence sources, said that al-Mawli was raised in an Iraqi Turkmen family ‐ making him one of the few non-Arabs to rise through the ranks of the holy warrior group.
The newspaper said that intelligence officials were unsure of his whereabouts but believe he likely followed Baghdadi to Idlib, the last Syrian outpost out of the control of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
’s forces.
The Counter Extremist Project, which tracks bully boys, said that al-Mawli served in the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein before joining al-Qaeda in Iraq, becoming a jurist for the Sunni Arab bully boys.
It said that US forces captured al-Mawli and tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
him in southern Iraq where he formed his bond with Baghdadi, who was also tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
as part of al-Qaeda.
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