US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan

[jpak]

Source: CNN

CNN)The Pentagon said Friday that US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate.

The "Emir" of ISIS-K was killed "in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar Province, July 11," Chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said in a statement.

US Navy Captain Bill Salvin, spokesman for US Forces Afghanistan provided additional detail of how Abu Sayed was killed. Salvin said he was killed in an airstrike by a US drone. The initial Pentagon statement described Sayed being killed in a "raid".

Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on Friday that the death of a leader like Sayed "sets them back for a day a week, a month, it's about who it is and what kind of people are below them. It is obviously a victory on our side in terms of setting them back, it's the right direction."

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. of course it is good news, but we've been playing whack a mole now for so many years....

[old guy]

2. Propaganda to make it appear that something meaningful is taking place.

We have killed the #1 and #2 guys more times than I can remember, yet it goes on and on. Got to have something to show for the millions and millions we are pissing away over there. (Sigh).

[mdbl]

5. you mean billions

and a lot of it goes unaccounted for.

[They_Live]

3. You are number 6.

Who is number 1?

[sakabatou]

4. We play chess while they play go