[IsraelTimes] Officials say US removed terror group’s ’chief propagandist, recruiter and architect of external terrorist operations’| ULULULULULULULULU!!!! (Been waiting a bit for the confirmation, even if Russia also claimed the kill a while back.) |
...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....
leader and front man Abu Mohammed al-Adnani
| ...first announced dead at the end of August, his real name is Taha Subhi Falaha... |
"The strike near Al Bab, Syria, removes from the battlefield ISIS’s chief propagandist, recruiter and architect of external terrorist operations," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
"It is one in a series of successful strikes against ISIS leaders, including those responsible for finances and military planning, that make it harder for the group to operate."
The August 30 air strike was conducted by a Predator drone, which fired a Hellfire missile at the car Adnani was traveling in.
Officials say Adnani was the main front man for IS, and he had played a major role during some of the group’s most high-profile attacks over the past year, including in Gay Paree, at the Brussels and Istanbul airports, at a cafe in Bangladesh, as well as the downing of a Russian airliner in the Sinai and suicide kabooms at a rally in Ankara.
Cook has previously said Adnani had coordinated the movement of IS fighters, encouraged lone-wolf attacks on civilians and members of the military and actively recruited new IS members.
Soon after the strike against Adnani, Russia said it was responsible for his death, a claim Pentagon officials dismissed as a "joke."