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4 senior ISIS leaders had been killed within the U.S.-Iraqi navy strike in western Iraq final month, together with the group’s high operational chief in Iraq and its chief bomb maker, for whom america had supplied a $5 million reward, the U.S. navy stated Friday.
The 4 ISIS leaders had been amongst 14 ISIS fighters killed within the Aug. 29 raid on 4 areas in western Iraq. Seven U.S. service members who took half within the raid had been wounded.
The Pentagon seal within the Pentagon Briefing Room in Arlington, Virginia, on September 1, 2021.
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“This operation focused ISIS leaders and served to disrupt and weaken ISIS’s skill to plan, manage, and conduct assaults in opposition to Iraqi civilians, in addition to Americans, allies, and companions within the area and past,” the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated in a press release on Friday.
“As a part of the continuing post-strike evaluation, CENTCOM can verify that 4 ISIS leaders had been killed, together with: Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al-Ithawi, liable for all operations in Iraq, Abu Hammam, liable for overseeing all operations in western Iraq, Abu-‘Ali al-Tunisi, liable for overseeing technical improvement, and Shakir Abud Ahmad al-Issawi, liable for overseeing navy operations in western Iraq,” it added.
Abu Ali al-Tunisi was profiled by the Rewards for Justice web site as “the chief of manufacturing for ISIS in Iraq.”
“He has supplied coaching to ISIS members, together with instruction within the making of explosives, suicide vests, and improvised explosive units (IEDs). Al-Tunisi has additionally supplied superior coaching in weapons improvement and the manufacturing of chemical weapons.”
CENTCOM had beforehand reported that some ISIS militants who took half within the assault had been armed with grenades and carrying explosive suicide belts.
4 ISIS leaders killed in assault that wounded 7 US servicemen
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