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Iraq: ISIS leader’s top aide killed in air strike
Al Arabiya ^ | 4 September 2014 | Staff writer, Al Arabiya News

Posted on 09/04/2014 9:09:51 AM PDT by GonzoII

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has lost his aide after a strike on the ISIS-held city of Mosul, in northern Iraq, the Iraqi defense ministry said Thursday.

Another ISIS figure was also declared dead, the ministry added.

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Baghdadi, who was a prominent figure in the Sunni extremist response to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the later Sunni insurgency, has declared himself the caliph of an Islamic State in the territories his organization has seized in Iraq and northeastern Syria.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; albaghdadi; iraq; isis
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1 posted on 09/04/2014 9:09:52 AM PDT by GonzoII
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2 posted on 09/04/2014 9:12:26 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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2 down, 29,998 to go.


3 posted on 09/04/2014 9:12:28 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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Go get ‘em all!


4 posted on 09/04/2014 9:12:28 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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5 posted on 09/04/2014 9:13:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: GonzoII
ISIS leader’s top aide killed in air strike

They killed his goat?

6 posted on 09/04/2014 9:13:32 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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7 posted on 09/04/2014 9:14:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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It ain't there?
8 posted on 09/04/2014 9:14:06 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/watch-ram-takes-flying-drone-chases-owner-article-1.1926093


9 posted on 09/04/2014 9:14:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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See post #7. Finger farted.....................


10 posted on 09/04/2014 9:15:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: SpinnerWebb
"2 down, 29,998 to go."

We're doomed!

11 posted on 09/04/2014 9:17:08 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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“Aide” as in Valerie Jarrett? Or “aide” as in “boy toy”?


12 posted on 09/04/2014 9:17:19 AM PDT by montag813
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that was cool.


13 posted on 09/04/2014 9:17:58 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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I guess he’ll have to get anew boy toy.


14 posted on 09/04/2014 9:18:13 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: b4its2late; SpinnerWebb

15 posted on 09/04/2014 9:21:18 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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Wow, when I read the headline, I thought they were talking about Baraq.


16 posted on 09/04/2014 9:25:54 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: The turd that won't flush.)
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To: GonzoII

Another martyr. More fuel. More posters. More fanatics.


17 posted on 09/04/2014 9:26:28 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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But there are always more bombs.


18 posted on 09/04/2014 9:32:07 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: GonzoII

oh no! they killed Igor! (or is it eyegore?)


19 posted on 09/04/2014 9:36:58 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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This is the at least the one millionth story about a muslim terrorist ringleader, top aide or head Jihadi killed.

They must be multiplying like rabbits back in the Big Sandpile.


20 posted on 09/04/2014 9:40:35 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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