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Post by sevenofnine on Jan 27, 2023 12:55:18 GMT -5
Dude was hiding in Somalia of all places The United States military has carried out an operation that killed a senior ISIL (ISIS) leader in northern Somalia, US officials said. A statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday said Bilal al-Sudani, a US-designated ISIL leader in Somalia and “key facilitator for ISIS’s global network”, was killed in the operation. It added that the operation was approved by President Joe Biden earlier this week and carried out on January 25. “Al-Sudani was responsible for fostering the growing presence of ISIS in Africa and for funding the group’s operations worldwide, including in Afghanistan,” Austin said. There were no other details about the operation given, including how the US forces carried out the operation or even how many American soldiers were involved. US officials told reporters at a teleconference on Thursday that 10 of al-Sudani’s associates were also killed in the operation. www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/27/u-s-military-operation-kills-islamic-state-leader-in-somalia-officials
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