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Omar the Chechen: Isis 'minister of war' confirmed dead by US officials
Source: The Independent (UK)
A senior Isis militant dubbed the terror groups minister for war has been killed in an airstrike, US officials have confirmed.
Omar al-Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen, was targeted in a strike near the town of al-Shadadi in Syria, two unnamed US officials told Reuters last week.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Shishani had been badly wounded but not killed in the attack and had been moved to Isiss headquarters in Raqqa for treatment.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/omar-the-chechen-aka-omar-al-shishani-isis-minister-of-war-killed-in-syria-strike-us-officials-a6931511.html
Omar the Chechen, an ISIS Official Wounded by U.S. Raid, Has Died
Source: NYT
A senior Islamic State militant whom the United States military tried to kill in an airstrike in Syria last week has died of his wounds, according to a senior Pentagon official.
The militant, Omar al-Shishani, was the Islamic States minister of war, according to the Pentagon. The name was an Arab pseudonym for Omar the Chechen, though he was a Georgian national.
The airstrike occurred March 4 near the Syrian city of Shaddadi, where he had gone to bolster Islamic State fighters after a series of strategic defeats to local forces that are being supported by the United States, the Pentagon said last Tuesday in a statement that announced the airstrike.
At the time, the Pentagon said it was still assessing whether he had been killed. Soon after the strike, jihadists claimed on social media that Mr. Shishani had been wounded, but survived the attack. The senior Pentagon official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential intelligence assessments, said Monday that the United States had confirmed Mr. Shishanis death, but declined to say precisely when he died or how American spy agencies knew that.
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/world/middleeast/omar-chechen-isis-killed-us-airstrike-syria.html
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Omar the Chechen: Isis 'minister of war' confirmed dead by US officials (Original Post)
Turborama
Mar 2016
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denbot
(9,899 posts)1. Rot in hell.
One less asswipe.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)2. Good, He was a monster
longship
(40,416 posts)3. Who's Omar "The Chicken"??
Here he is: