France Says It Has Killed Islamic State Leader Responsible for Deaths of U.S. Soldiers
Source: The Wall Street Journal.
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France Says It Has Killed Islamic State Leader Responsible for Deaths of U.S. Soldiers
Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi led 2017 operation that killed four American troops in Niger
By Benoit Faucon and Joe Parkinson
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Updated Sept. 16, 2021 5:56 am ET
France said Thursday it had killed Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the Islamic State leader who led the killing of four U.S. servicemen in Niger in 2017 and was the architect of one of the terrorist outfits most successful franchises following the groups loss of its Middle East territories.
This is another major success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel, French President Emmanuel Macron said, referring to the vast semiarid region south of the Sahara that has become home to some of the worlds most deadly jihadist cells. He didnt provide details on when or where precisely al-Sahrawi had died.
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Lovie777
(12,327 posts)allies working together to combat world terrorism.
It also takes a village from within to combat domestic terrorism as well.
brer cat
(24,605 posts)some closure to know he is dead. trump was such as a$$ to her.
JustAnotherGen
(31,881 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)to himself, and especially for people of color in the military, but in the early days he was particularly vocal about it.
Mysterian
(4,593 posts)Good job.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,585 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)Those guys are bad-ass!
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Those guys make the Foreign Legion look like wimps.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Reminder, these are the deaths that Donald Trump completely ignored, eh didn't even mention them for 6 weeks after they were killed.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Yet our conservatives got all upset about four killed in Benghazi but don't care about four of our soldiers killed by Trump in Niger.
In discussing the death of one of the four soldiers Trump killed in Niger, he 'knew what he signed up for'
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=he+knew+what+he+signed+up+for
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)work for them!"
Oh, the whining from the RW. Ignoring the fact that the French did this as a part of an overall effort against terrorism and, I'm sure, with the knowledge of Biden and his team in the military and our State Department.
Trump sure didn't get him.
BumRushDaShow
(129,450 posts)so France essentially had a "lay of the land" / "historic intelligence" perspective of the country.
I am glad they managed to do this and hopefully this will be able to bring about some closure for the families of those soldiers.