Senior Leaders of Islamic State Eliminated in Airstrikes

Israel National News ^ | 9-5-2014 | Ari Yashar

[sheikdetailfeather]

The leadership of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and Iraq took a sharp blow on Thursday, as roughly 20 senior figures, including a top aide to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were killed in airstrikes according to the Iraqi defense ministry.

In airstrikes on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where IS began its blitz conquest of Iraq in June, Baghdadi's top aide was killed along with a senior IS military commander, Abu Alaa al-Iraqi, according to Iraqi sources cited by BBC.

It remains unclear if the airstrike was conducted by local US-trained Iraqi forces, or by the US, which has been engaged in a series of targeted airstrikes on IS terrorists in Iraq since last month.

IS took a blow in eastern Syria as well, where 18 foreign jihadist senior leaders of the group, including an American jihadist, were killed by an airstrike in the IS-held city of Raqqa according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The top IS leaders were in the municipal building of Gharbiya, which has been used as a headquarters for the extremist group, when the strike occurred.

[Kozak]

Actually they’ve learned to avoid using cell phones because they frequently lead to a loud boom....

[MasterGunner01]

More of these IS or ISIS or ISIL or whatever will step up to assume leadership roles. The correct thing to do is keep targeting them. Keep killing off the Hydra's many heads and the beast will be defeated. The work will be hard and long.

[I still care]

I wonder if we are going to be treated to staged photos of Obama and the others all staring intently at “realtime” computer screens? Hillary won’t get in on this one...