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Following the IDF strike in the area of Beirut on Tuesday in which Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi, Head of Hezbollah's Missiles and Rockets Force was eliminated, the IDF cleared for publication Friday morning that additional senior terrorists were killed alongside him. The eliminated terrorists include Qabisi's deputy, Abbas Ibrahim Sharaf Ad-Din, and an additional senior terrorist from Hezbollah's missile unit, Hussein Hany, who was close to Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah's most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit, who was eliminated in July. Additionally, the terrorist Fuad Shafiq Khaz’al Khanafer, a senior operative in Hezbollah's surface-to-surface missile unit, was...

Soldiers in first platoon "Choppin' Charlie" Company, captured a sniper near Samarra, Iraq, Monday. Some of the soldiers involved pictured left to right: Sgt Jimmy Sutton, Spc. Juan Villanueva, Cpl. Jason Kugler, Pvt. First Class Michael George, First Lt. Richard Hawkins, Pvt. First Class Jeffery Walker, Pvt. First Class Rick Monnig and Spc. Joseph Vanhook. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Cassandra Groce Soldiers Take Out Snipers in Salah Ad Din Rakkasan platoon kills one sniper and detains another while on patrol. By Pfc. Cassandra Groce 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment SAMARRA, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006 — One sniper was...