[ALMANAR.LB] The White House said Friday that the second-in-command of the Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group, ISIL (so-called 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....
in Iraq and Levant), has been killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq.
The National Security Council identified the slain bully boy as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Haji Mutaz, and said he was ISIL leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
's senior deputy.
US forces say they were able to kill him, along with an ISIL "media operative" known as Abu Abdullah, on August 18 in a strike on a vehicle near the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
.
The White House described Al-Hayali as a member of the ISIL's ruling council, and "a primary coordinator for moving large amounts of weapons, explosives, vehicles and people between Iraq and Syria.
"He supported ISIL operations in both countries and was in charge of ISIL operations in Iraq, where he was instrumental in planning operations over the past two years, including the ISIL offensive in Mosul in June 2014," it said.
Like many senior Iraqi Takfiris, before joining the ISIL group, Al-Hayali had been a member of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi faction.