Action around Qaim

Bill Roggio:

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In the region of Qaim, the U.S. focuses on local intelligence and airpower to target al Qaeda leaders and fighters, and disrupt their operations. Within the last twenty four hours, two more air strikes are conducted in the region, and two leaders of al Qaeda are killed.

Abu Mohammad, the leader of a bomb making cell, has been killed during an air strike on a terrorist safe house in Husaybah. According to CENTCOM, Mohammad was well connected in the region, and reported directly to Abu Islam, al Qaeda’s former “Emir of Husaybah”. Abu Islam was killed in an air strike last week in Qaim, along with forty-seven other terrorists.

Abu Ali, “a senior al-Qaeda agent in charge of helping foreign fighters enter the country from Syria” was also killed near Husaybah during an air strike. Ali was an import leader of al Qaeda. His reach extended outside of Iraq to Saudi Arabia and Syria, and he was responsible for helping foreign terrorists get established in the cities and towns along the western branch of the Euphrates River. Ali also was an associate of Abu Talha, the former leader of al Qaeda in Mosul, who was arrested in June.


Roggio also discusses the action around Tall Afar.

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