And yet another one bites the dust

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[h=1]Man 'radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages' shot and killed by joint terrorism task force after allegedly pulling a 'military-style' knife on them in Boston[/h]

• Usaama Rahim, 26, was shot and killed on Tuesday outside a CVS pharmacy in Boston at about 7.15 a.m.
• Members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force say they approached Rahim and that he branished a 'military-style' knife at them
• He is alleged to have lunged at a police officer and FBI agent with the knife and they opened fire - shooting him in the torso and abdomen
• His family have contradicted those claims and say he was on the phone to his father when he was shot three times in the back
• Rahim was being investigated by the task force after becoming radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages, report authorities
• Authorities later raided a home nearby in connection with the case

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A man under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators in Boston was shot and killed on Tuesday morning after he lunged at a city police officer and an FBI agent with a knife.
The man, identified as 26-year-old Usaama Rahim, refused orders by the members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force to drop his 'military-style' knife before the officer and agent both opened fire.
Rahim had confronted the investigators after they identified themselves as law enforcement and asked him to stop and talk outside a CVS pharmacy in the city's Roslindale neighborhood at about 7 a.m.


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A photograph of Rahim's 'military-style' knife was put on display during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon

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Usaama Rahim, under surveillance by terrorism investigators in Boston, was shot and killed on Tuesday morning after he allegedly lunged at a cop and an FBI agent with a knife outside a CVS pharmacy

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Rahim's family are contradicting the authorities' claims and say he was on the phone to his father when he was shot three times in the back






Rahim was approached as part of an 'investigation that's been going on for some time by the Joint Terrorism Task Force,' Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Evans said, 'We believed he was a threat. He was someone we were watching for quite a time. The level of alarm brought us to question him today. I don't think anybody expected the reaction we got out of him.'
Confirmation of the dead man's name had come earlier from the Council of American-Islamic Relations.
Spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said his organization had spoken to Rahim's older brother, Imam Ibrahim Rahim, who had confirmed the death.
The elder Rahim wrote in a Facebook post that his brother was shot three times in the back while waiting at a bus stop to go to work.

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'I can't breathe': Usaama Rahim's elder brother Ibrahim wrote in a Facebook post that his brother was waiting at a bus stop to go to work on Tuesday morning when he was confronted






According to the family, Rahim was on the phone with his father who heard the shots and his last words were 'I can't breathe.'
'We are deeply grieved by the loss of my younger brother,' wrote Ibrahim in another post. He is an imam at a mosque in the Boston area.
Law enforcement officials refuted that allegation at Tuesday's press conference.
Commissioner Evans said Rahim was shot twice - in the torso and the abdomen - and that there is surveillance footage to back up that version of events.
'The officers asked him several times to put that knife down. They gave him several commands. The officers tried their best, repeating. Again, several more orders to put down. And at that point, he came within the proximity that the officers used deadly force,' he said.
Officials said the officer and agent had been investigating whether the Rahim had become radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages, reports NBC News.

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Rahim was being investigated by the task force following a tip-off that he had become radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages

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Law enforcement officials in Boston held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon during which it was stated that Rahim had been shot twice - in the torso and abdomen - and that there is surveillance footage of the incident

On Tuesday afternoon, authorities raided a home in Everett in connection with the case.
Vincent Lisi, head of the Boston FBI, would not disclose any specifics of why Rahim was being investigated.
'I can tell you that our investigation is still ongoing. There's a lot more for us to do.' He would not comment on whether others are being looked at in the investigation,' he told The Boston Globe.
He said Rahim was considered 'armed and dangerous' at the time when he was confronted, but 'we don't think there's any concern for public safety right now' from other suspects.
In recent months, ISIS messages worldwide have called for attacks using whatever weapons are at hand, including guns and knives.
Federal and local sources stressed they did not believe there was a threat to the general public at this time.
The officer and the agent were also evaluated at the hospital for what Evans described as 'stress,' though they were not physically injured.

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Police vehicles sit in front of a multi-storied home on Tuesday in Everett, Mass., being searched by authorities in connection with a man shot and killed earlier in the day in Boston



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Good and inexpensive. Next!

 

[ScottL]

Cancer Kills Cancer

Islamist Extremist Killed by Hamas Forces in Gaza as Tensions Soar - Adel Zaanoun (AP/Daily Star - Lebanon)
A local Salafist leader was shot dead in Gaza City Tuesday during a confrontation with Hamas security forces as tensions mounted between the Strip's Islamist rulers and its extremist opponents.
The violence came as Hamas police and security forces stepped up measures against militants belonging to Islamic extremist groups. The extremist tried to blow himself up with a suicide vest but was shot dead before it detonated.
There have also been attacks claimed by groups purporting to be from an ISIS branch in Gaza, although such claims have so far been largely discredited.

 

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Interesting waiting in Boston for a bus! Sounds like ISIS will be opening a branch in the USA soon if not already having one somewhere? Why do we need to know if a branch does exist, carry-on...... Play Over in NBA

 

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Al-Qaeda Confirms U.S. Strike Killed Its No. 2 Leader
Al-Qaeda on Tuesday confirmed that Nasir al-Wahishi, its no. 2 figure and leader of its Yemeni affiliate, was killed in a U.S. airstrike. Al-Wahishi once served as bin Laden's personal secretary, and was deputy to Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded bin Laden in 2011. Yemeni security officials said a U.S. drone strike killed three militants in the al-Qaeda-held city of Mukalla last week. Al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate has been linked to a number of foiled or botched attacks on the U.S. homeland. (AP-New York Times)


North African Militant Leader Believed Killed in Airstrike - Dion Nissenbaum and Drew Hinshaw
Pentagon officials said Monday they believe a weekend U.S. airstrike in Libya killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who orchestrated the 2013 siege of a gas compound in Algeria that killed 38 civilians, including three Americans. (Wall Street Journal)

 

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Al-Qaeda Confirms U.S. Strike Killed Its No. 2 Leader
Al-Qaeda on Tuesday confirmed that Nasir al-Wahishi, its no. 2 figure and leader of its Yemeni affiliate, was killed in a U.S. airstrike. Al-Wahishi once served as bin Laden's personal secretary, and was deputy to Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded bin Laden in 2011. Yemeni security officials said a U.S. drone strike killed three militants in the al-Qaeda-held city of Mukalla last week. Al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate has been linked to a number of foiled or botched attacks on the U.S. homeland. (AP-New York Times)


North African Militant Leader Believed Killed in Airstrike - Dion Nissenbaum and Drew Hinshaw
Pentagon officials said Monday they believe a weekend U.S. airstrike in Libya killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who orchestrated the 2013 siege of a gas compound in Algeria that killed 38 civilians, including three Americans. (Wall Street Journal)

 

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U.S. Drone Strike Kills Senior Islamic State Militant - Dion Nissenbaum (Wall Street Journal)
A senior Islamic State fighter from Tunisia who oversaw recruitment of foreign fighters to be suicide bombers has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Tariq bin Tahar al-'Awni al-Harzi, 33, helped raise money for Islamic State and oversaw efforts to bring in foreign fighters from Europe.
His brother, Ali, killed in a separate missile strike in Iraq disclosed last week, was suspected of a role in the 2012 attack on U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador.

He's expecting THIS in Paradise:

Instead he's getting THIS:

 

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U.S. Drone Strike Kills Senior Islamic State Militant - Dion Nissenbaum (Wall Street Journal)
A senior Islamic State fighter from Tunisia who oversaw recruitment of foreign fighters to be suicide bombers has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Tariq bin Tahar al-'Awni al-Harzi, 33, helped raise money for Islamic State and oversaw efforts to bring in foreign fighters from Europe.
His brother, Ali, killed in a separate missile strike in Iraq disclosed last week, was suspected of a role in the 2012 attack on U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador.

He's expecting THIS in Paradise:

Instead he's getting THIS:

 

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Ahhhhh, good news to start my morning.

 

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[h=1]British jihadi who fled to Syria to join ISIS after stabbing football fan in the head 'among ten killed' following Coalition airstrikes on group’s capital of Raqqa[/h]

• U.S. led forces launched biggest airstrike attack ever in Syria on IS capital
• Website posts pictures of the ten dead and claims two children were killed
• Among those reported to have died was British jihadi Abu Rahin Aziz, 32
• Coalition said militants killed and buildings and transit routes destroyed

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A British jihadi who fled to Syria after stabbing a football fan in the head has been killed in a U.S. airstrike on Islamic State forces, according to unconfirmed reports.
Abu Rahin Aziz, 32, from Luton, skipped bail and fled the country before serving his 36-week jail sentence for the attack in London.
He had stabbed his football fan victim with a pen in the West End for supposedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed.
It was claimed he was among ten militants killed in the coalitions largest airstrike on Raqqa to date.
The credit control operator, who had used the names Abu Abdullah al-Britani and Dugmatimes on social media, has been linked to the radical UK preacher Anjem Choudary.
Announcing his death of Twitter, historian Pieter Van Ostaeyen wrote: 'British IS-fighter Abu Abdullah al-Britani (dugmatimes) killed in an American strike.'
The attack was said to have been carried out by a drone near the city of Raqqa, the Islamic State's claimed capital, on Saturday.
A post retweeted by radical London preacher Abu Haleema read: 'May Allah accept Abu Abdullah al-Britani [also known as dugmatimes/citizen of Khilafah] who got shahadah by a drone attack yesterday.'
Another message stated: 'The wellknown da'I Abu Abdullah al Britani became shaheed insha Allah. May Allah swt Accept him.'
Earlier this year, Aziz used Twitter to call on Muslims to 'track down' and 'kill' the Home Secretary, Theresa May, who he called a 'lap dog' of David Cameron and enemy of Islam.
He also called for other MPs to be targeted in Lee Rigby-style attacks ahead of the General Election


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The militant had posted pictures of himself brandishing assault rifles and spoke about ways of destroying his British passport.
Aziz had been a member of the notorious Muslim Against Crusades group, which burnt poppies on Armistice Day five years ago.
Coalition forces launched their largest ever airstrike offensive in Syria, killing at least ten militants and a host of civilians in horror scenes in ISIS's de facto capital.
The attacks sparked a series of explosions that rocked the city and prompted the terror group to post pictures of those killed online, including two children that they claim have died.
The strikes caused a wave of panic among the general public and were even criticised by a civilian group that opposes ISIS. It claimed eight civilians including a ten-year-old child were killed.

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Onslaught: Coalition forces launched the biggest airstrike operation they've ever completed in Syria this weekend. The attacks prompted the terror group to post pictures of those killed online, including two children that they claim have died

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Collateral damage: The strikes were criticised by a civilian group that opposes ISIS, which claimed eight civilians including a ten-year-old child were killed

There were at least 16 airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria, reported late Saturday and early Sunday in the IS stronghold, in what coalition forces said was the largest airstrike operation in Syria to date.
Coalition forces confirmed today that ten were killed, many more were wounded and vital structures and transit routes were destroyed.
Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said: 'The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq.'
'This was one of the largest deliberate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria, and it will have debilitating effects on Daesh's ability to move' from Raqqa.
Last year, the terror group declared Raqqa the de facto capital of the so-called Islamic caliphate in territories it controls in Iraq and Syria.
An IS-affiliated militant website confirmed the strikes on the center of the city, saying 10 people were killed and dozens wounded.
It also published purported photos of dead victims, including two of young boys that it claims were civilians.
Activists said the strikes triggered a series of explosions that rocked the entire city and created panic among residents.
An anti-ISIS activist network in the city reported that eight civilians were killed by the coalition airstrikes, including a 10-year-old child. The report could not be independently confirmed.
The network, called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered, said at least one airstrike targeted a group of IS members in the city center.
Another targeted an IS checkpoint while a third destroyed large parts of an IS-held brick factory.
Roughly 150km away, in the remote northeastern city of Hassakeh, IS suicide bombers detonated an explosives-laden truck near a main power plant Sunday.

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Control centre: ISIS announced that Raqqa was their de facto capital in territories it gets controlled in Syria and Iraq

State-run news agency SANA reported casualties and material damage in the power plant on the southern edge of the city.
Fighting has raged in Hassakeh since the IS group attacked several southern neighborhoods held by government troops earlier this month. It has forced tens of thousands of residents to flee.
The predominantly Kurdish city was split between government forces and Kurdish fighters, who have been fighting the IS group separately.
The coalition regularly targets the Islamic State group, which controls about a third of Iraq and Syria.
In Iraq, a Defense Ministry statement said government forces repelled an IS attack on a town and a vital dam in Anbar province.
IS fighters launched an offensive on the town of Haditha and the nearby Haditha dam Sunday morning.
At least 20 militants were killed in the failed attack, said the statement, which did not provide any further information.
Iraqi forces, backed by Shiite militias, have been struggling to recapture areas lost to the IS group in the country's west and north.
In May, the militant group scored a stunning victory, overrunning Ramadi, the provincial capital of western Anbar province.
However, Haditha and some other towns remain under control of government forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters.


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[h=1]UAE executes woman for killing American teacher[/h]

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Alaa Badr al-Hashemi was filmed by CCTV cameras entering and leaving the shopping centreThe United Arab Emirates has executed a woman convicted of stabbing to death an American teacher in December 2014.
Alaa Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi, a 30-year-old Emirati, was found guilty last month of the murder of Ibolya Ryan.
The 47-year-old's body was discovered in the toilets of a shopping centre in Abu Dhabi. Her 11-year-old twin sons had been waiting outside for her.
Hashemi was also convicted of planting a bomb outside the flat of an American-Egyptian doctor.
The bomb was discovered and dismantled before it exploded.
[h=2]'Random' killing[/h]The attorney general for state security prosecution told the official Wam news agency that Hashemi was executed on Monday morning after approval was given by the UAE's president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The report did not disclose how Hashemi was killed, but it came only two weeks after the Federal Supreme Court delivered a guilty verdict that was not eligible for appeal.
Police said the mother of six had become radicalised over the internet and had been looking for a foreigner to kill at random.
Hashemi told prosecutors that she had been angered by the detention of her husband by the security services and had wanted to spread fear among Western expatriates, according to the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, The National.
Hashemi also asked the court during her trial to provide her with psychological help, complaining that she had "unreal visions" and saw "ghost-like people". The court ordered tests which it said showed she had been aware of her actions.
While UAE law allows for the death penalty, executions are rare. The last known execution was in January 2014, when a Sri Lankan migrant worker convicted of murder was shot dead by a firing squad.

 

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MORE than 60 Britons have died while fighting for Islamic terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

The figure, confirmed by government sources, is twice that reported last year and suggests a sharp increase in the rate of British fighters killed in the service of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Experts say the new death toll means that nearly one in 10 of the estimated 700 British jihadists who have gone to Syria has been killed or has killed themselves in suicide attacks since the conflict started drawing in British foreign fighters in 2012. The identities of many of those killed have emerged in social media reports emanating from Isil.

The disclosure comes as ministers are understood to be planning a bombing campaign against Islamist terrorists in Syria. David Cameron is expected to call a Commons vote on the issue in the autumn.

[SUB]Talha Asmal, 17, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, who became Britain's youngest suicide bomber[/SUB]

 

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[h=1]ISIS's 'second-in-command is forced to do Cersei Lannister-style walk of shame as he is paraded through town before being hanged in Libya'[/h]

• Abu-Ali Al-Anbari was captured during fighting in the Libyan city of Derna
• He was paraded through streets lined with people and led to the gallows
• Sources who have seen the footage say it was to deter would-be defectors
• Public execution resembles iconic scene from TV show Game of Thrones
• Lead character made to walk naked through streets to 'atone for her sins'

A captured ISIS commander was reportedly forced to do a 'Game of Thrones-style' walk-of-shame through a Libyan city before he was hanged to death.
Abu-Ali Al-Anbari, who is thought to be Islamic State's second-in-command, was caught by a rival Islamist group while fighting for control of the strategically important city of Derna on Libya's coast.
Sensational reports suggest he was then marched through the streets as onlookers taunted him, led to the gallows and executed in front of the baying mob.
Cersei Lannister, a lead character in the popular fantasy-drama Game of Thrones, was forced to strip off and walk through the streets as furious crowd jeered and threw food at her in the show's season finale.

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Executed: ISIS's second-in-command Abu-Ali Al-Anbari (pictured) was allegedly forced to do a walk of shame through the Libyan city of Derna before he was hanged to death

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Mimic: Cersei Lannister (pictured), a lead character in the popular fantasy-drama Game of Thrones, was forced to strip off and walk through the streets during the show to 'atone for her sins'



The public execution was described to the Daily Beast by two sources who allegedly saw footage of the shaming and hanging of Al-Anbari.
One source told the website how the ISIS commander was marched through the street 'Cersei Lannister-style', referring to the queen mother in Game of Thrones who was forced to walk naked through the streets to 'atone for her sins'.
The public nature of Al-Anbari's execution, which reportedly took place in mid-June, was meant to deter followers of the unnamed jihadi group from joining ISIS. It mirrors the gruesome execution videos its rivals have become infamous for.
He is considered the right-hand man of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and allegedly plays a political role in overseeing its branches in other countries - including Libya.
His also directs operations against the Syrian rebels who oppose Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's government - and the Syrian government itself.
ISIS are supposedly making millions out of taxing gangs who are smuggling people out of Libya and across the Mediterranean into Europe, an investigation claimed in May.

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Territory: ISIS is thought to control some territory in Libya and in February, a video appeared to show cars carrying the notorious black flag of Islamic State (pictured) as they drove through the country

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Atrocity: ISIS was blamed for the bloody executions of 21 Egyptian Christians on a beach in Libya (pictured) in February


Families of murdered Egyptian Coptic Christians weep (archive)

crossing - commanding up to £60,000 per boat - which is then used to fund their activities.
Intelligence analysts also fear that would-be jihadis are exploiting the growing crisis of desperate migrants fleeing war-torn North Africa by joining them on risky boat crossings.
ISIS is thought to control some territory on the Libyan coast and in February, a video appeared to show a fleet of Toyota Land Cruisers carrying the notorious black flag of Islamic State as they drove through the country.
Men, women and children cheer and salute the pick-up trucks as they drive freely through what is believed to be the city of Benghazi.
The carefully produced propaganda video was uploaded by terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia on February 5.
The group declared city an 'Islamic emirate' in July 2014 before pledging allegiance to Islamic State just three months later. In November of that year, the UN blacklisted it as a terrorist organisation.
The group was widely blamed for the death of US Ambassador Christopher Stephens in Benghazi in 2012.
And it was also linked to the bloody executions of 21 Egyptian Christians on a beach in Libya in February.

 

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Hamas Executes Commander for Leaking Where Terror Chief Was Hiding Jonathan Beck (Times of Israel)
Muhammad Shtiwi, a commander in the military wing of Hamas, was executed Monday for allegedly giving Israel information on the whereabouts of Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif during last summer's Gaza conflict, Hamas sources said.
Deif was targeted by an airstrike on Aug. 19, 2014, but survived.

 

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Clinton would probably say it depends on how you define ISIS....lol.

 

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[h=3]Pentagon Official Confirms Death of Khorasan Group Leader[/h]DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2015 – Muhsin al-Fadhli, a longtime al-Qaida operative, was killed "in a kinetic strike" July 8 while traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, the Defense Department’s press operations chief, said today.
Fadhli was the leader of a network of veteran al-Qaida operatives, sometimes called the Khorasan Group, who are plotting external attacks against the United States and its allies, Davis said in a statement.
He was a senior al-Qaida facilitator who was among the few trusted al-Qaida leaders who received advance notification of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Davis said, and also was involved in terrorist attacks that took place in October 2002, including against U.S. Marines on Faylaka Island in Kuwait and on the French ship MV Limburg.
His death will degrade and disrupt ongoing external operations of al-Qaida against the United States and its allies and partners, the captain said.




[h=1]Longtime Al Qaeda leader who knew about 9/11 attacks before they happened 'killed by US air strike in Syria'[/h]

• Muhsin al-Fadhli, 34, killed while in vehicle near Sarmada, Syria
• Former leader of al Qaeda in Iran was head of secretive Khorasan group allegedly planning attacks on the West from the war-torn country
• Al-Fadhli believed to have been part of 2002 attacks on Marine in Kuwait and French oil tanker MV Limburg

PUBLISHED: 23:45, 21 July 2015 | UPDATED: 00:25, 22 July 2015

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Muhsin al-Fadhli, 34, was killed in an aerial attack while he was traveling near Sarmada, Syria on July 8, according to officials at the Pentagon

An al Qaeda operative thought to have had knowledge of the terrorist group's most famous attacks has been killed in a US air strike, according to US officials.
Muhsin al-Fadhli, 34, was killed in an aerial attack while he was traveling near Sarmada, Syria on July 8, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement.


Al-Fadhli 'was a senior al Qaeda facilitator who was among the few trusted Al Qaeda leaders that received advanced notification of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,' the statement said.
Information about whether the strike was carried out by a drone or a pilot was not immediately available.


The Kuwait native was the leader of the Khorasan Group, a group of about 50 senior al Qaeda fighters running operations in Syria designed to target the West.


News of the secretive group emerged last year, though some analysts such as Mustafa Alani, Senior Advisor and Program Director in Security and Terrorism Studies at the Gulf Research Center, said that Al-Fadhli was not the groups real leader.
'He’s more a preacher then a commander,' he told Buzzfeed.


Al-Fadhi was said to have strong ties to deceased al Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
He was previously an leader for the terrorist group in Iran before his move to war-torn Syria, where the Khorasan group was said to use facilities from the Al-Nusra Front.
He was thought to be involved in the October 2002 attack on the MV Limburg oil tanker, in which tens of thousands of barrels of oil were leaked into the ocean and one crew member was killed.
The terrorist leader allegedly played a part in the death of a US Marine on a Kuwaiti island around the same time.

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Al-Fadhli was said to have been part of separate 2002 attacks on a US Marine in Kuwait and the French oil tanker MV Limburg off the coast of Yemen







He was reportedly targeted in an air strike last year, with some officials saying he had been killed but others reserving doubts.
The US State Department had offered a $7million reward for information that brought him to justice.
American airstrikes in Syria began last September in an effort to combat Islamic State there and in neighboring Iraq.
Widespread media reports about the Khorasan Group began around the same time.
Pentagon officials said that they had killed Tariq bin Tahar-Al-Awni-al-Harzi, a senior ISIS recruiter, in a drone attack on Shaddadi, Syria, in mid-June.

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The terrorist was said to be leader of the Al Qaeda Khorasan Group, which reportedly used facilities from the Al-Nusra Front in the country. Above, Al-Nusra Front fighters outside Aleppo in 2013



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[h=1]Last of the Portsmouth 'Bad Boys' jihadists killed[/h][h=2]Assad Uzzaman is fourth of Portsmouth group to die while a fifth is in prison[/h]

Assad Uzzaman, also known as Abu Abdullah al Britani, from Portsmouth


The last of a group of Portsmouth jihadists who called themselves the “Bad Boys” when they joined Isil has been killed.

The death of 25-year-old Assad Uzzaman was reported on social media by other fighters from the terror group.

He was one of five friends caught on camera as they walked through Gatwick airport in October 2013 on their way to Syria.

Of those, four are now dead and the fifth, Mashudur Choudhury, is serving afour year prison term after returning to the UK.

Uzzaman is also the cousin of a sixth Portsmouth man and so-called “celebrity jihadi”, Ifthekar Jaman, who went to Syria to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) ahead of his friends and was killed in 2013.

Uzzaman, who used the Islamist name Abu Abdullah Al Brittani, was suspected of being behind online messages which encouraged children to leave their parents for Syria and offered travel advice.
More than 60 Britons are now believed to have died in Syria, many of them fighting alongside the brutal Isil group.
Little is known about how Uzzaman died but many Britons and other Western fighters are understood to be used on the frontline of battles or as suicide bombers because they have little fighting experience.
Reports over the weekend claimed the US was using drone strikes to target Isil fighters, including Britons, who made threats against the West online.
Shiraz Maher, a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, which monitors fanatics online, confirmed the death.
Raffaello Pantucci, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said: “The death of the final member of the Portsmouth group is the closing of a fascinating chapter of Britain's Syrian jihad.
“Their motivations for joining were a complex array of camaraderie, religious interest, desire to protect the Syrian people and excitement at the prospect of participating in conflict.
“The sad reality of their deaths, however, shows that while these young men may be drawn to this conflict for a wide array of sometime even noble reasons, they were not able to turn the tide of the conflict and ultimately simply became cannon fodder in ISIS's confrontation with everybody from the Assad regime to the West.
“With their deaths, we are left with little changing in the war in Syria, saddened families back in the UK and simply a growing roster of young Britons who are fighting in this seemingly intractable conflict.”
Uzzaman was suspected of being the same Abu Abdullah Al-Brittani behind an Ask.Fm travel guide for would-be jihadists last year.
In messages online he encouraged one reader, who admitted he was a child and was worried out his parents finding out to go to Syria anyway and gave tips on exchanging money.
He went to Syria with Choudhury, Muhammad Mehdi Hassan, Mamunur Mohammed Roshid, Muhammad Hamidur Rahman.

[SUP]The Portsmouth friends leaving Gatwick for Syria[/SUP]
They were pictured on CCTV as they walked through Gatwick airport on October 8, 2013 after buying cheap tickets on a Thomas Cook to Turkey.
They claimed they were going in a two week holiday to the Turkish Antalya but instead slipped over the border in to Syria.
Once there they dubbed themselves the "Britani Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys".
But within 17 days, Choudhury, 31, who saw himself as a father figure in the group, returned to the UK, where he was arrested and charged with attending a terrorist training camp.
At his trial last year, the court heard his wife had told him to “go die in the battlefield” during a row over his plans.
In October last year, Hassan, 20, was reportedly killed in the battle for Kobane, the Syrian Kurdish town besieged by Isil.
Roshid, 24, nicknamed "Sleepyhead", was reportedly killed a few days before him during the same siege.
Rahman, 25, a former Primark worker, was killed last July during a firefight with troops loyal to the Assad regime.
Uzzaman’s cousin, Jaman, 23, was one of the first Britons to join Isil and gain a high profile on social media.
He encouraged others to join him in Syria, especially the Portsmouth group, and described it as a “five-star jihad”.
He was killed during an assault on a major arms depot in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour in December 2013.