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07-01-2016, 08:31 PM
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Two Senior ISIS Commanders Killed in Air Strike
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-senior-isis-commanders-killed-air-strike-pentagon-n602766
Two senior ISIS commanders, including the man who oversaw the terror group's offensive to capture the Iraqi city of Mosul, were killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike, the Pentagon said Friday.
Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, the terror group's deputy minister of war, and Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, an ISIS military commander in Mosul, were killed in the June 25 airstrike, the U.S. military said.
Al-Bajari, a former member of al Qaeda, oversaw the original offensive to capture Mosul in June of 2014, the Pentagon said.
The two ISIS figures were riding together in a car when they were killed, a senior defense official said.
Al-Bajari and al-Hamdun were the only two people in the vehicle, the official said.
"Their deaths, along with strikes against other ISIL leaders in the past month, have critically degraded ISIL's leadership experience in Mosul and removed two of their most senior military members in Northern Iraq," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement.
"Removing these terrorist leaders from the battlefield shapes the environment for Iraqi forces to ultimately liberate Mosul with support from the international coalition," Cook said.
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Two Senior ISIS Commanders Killed in Air Strike
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-senior-isis-commanders-killed-air-strike-pentagon-n602766
Two senior ISIS commanders, including the man who oversaw the terror group's offensive to capture the Iraqi city of Mosul, were killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike, the Pentagon said Friday.
Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, the terror group's deputy minister of war, and Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, an ISIS military commander in Mosul, were killed in the June 25 airstrike, the U.S. military said.
Al-Bajari, a former member of al Qaeda, oversaw the original offensive to capture Mosul in June of 2014, the Pentagon said.
The two ISIS figures were riding together in a car when they were killed, a senior defense official said.
Al-Bajari and al-Hamdun were the only two people in the vehicle, the official said.
"Their deaths, along with strikes against other ISIL leaders in the past month, have critically degraded ISIL's leadership experience in Mosul and removed two of their most senior military members in Northern Iraq," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement.
"Removing these terrorist leaders from the battlefield shapes the environment for Iraqi forces to ultimately liberate Mosul with support from the international coalition," Cook said.
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