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tabasco

(22,974 posts)
Mon May 9, 2016, 09:47 PM May 2016

Islamic State leader in Iraq's Anbar killed, Pentagon says

Source: BBC

A key leader of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq's Anbar province has been killed in a coalition air strike, the Pentagon says.
Abu Waheeb, formerly a member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a raid on Friday, according to the Pentagon.
"It is dangerous to be an Isil leader in Iraq and Syria nowadays," spokesman Peter Cook said, using an alternative name for the group.
Waheeb has falsely been declared dead on several previous occasions.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36252776

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Islamic State leader in Iraq's Anbar killed, Pentagon says (Original Post) tabasco May 2016 OP
He got his reputation from executing a group of Syrian truck drivers in 2013 Kaleva May 2016 #1
Good lord Bangbangdem May 2016 #2
Or not - they're not claiming that victory is in our grasp. maxsolomon May 2016 #4
I hope you're right Bangbangdem May 2016 #5
"Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. redixdoragon May 2016 #3
Thank you for that. Bangbangdem May 2016 #6
 

Bangbangdem

(140 posts)
2. Good lord
Mon May 9, 2016, 10:26 PM
May 2016

Here we go again. In a week or two he'll be captured. Executed. And in a month or so another raid will take his "life." What a bunch of balony. Reminds me of McNamara, every time he came back from Vietnam. "What I can tell you is that, we've stopped losing the war." Seen this movie.

maxsolomon

(33,419 posts)
4. Or not - they're not claiming that victory is in our grasp.
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:40 PM
May 2016

Just that this one Terrie is gone. He might be most sincerely dead.

redixdoragon

(156 posts)
3. "Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front.
Tue May 10, 2016, 09:50 AM
May 2016

Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash –"Bad news coming, thought Winston. And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners..."

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