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Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the ISIS Attack Dog Reported Dead

BY SOFREP News Team

Officially, the 39-year-old Taha Subhi Falaha, better known as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani was spokesman for the so-called Islamic State: a vitriolic but compelling rhetorician for the caliphate whose imprecations—against America, the Shia, insufficiently pious Muslims and eventually al-Qaeda—earned him the nickname “attack dog.” Now he’s a dead one, according to the organization he served. In a statement, the […]

Officially, the 39-year-old Taha Subhi Falaha, better known as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani was spokesman for the so-called Islamic State: a vitriolic but compelling rhetorician for the caliphate whose imprecations—against America, the Shia, insufficiently pious Muslims and eventually al-Qaeda—earned him the nickname “attack dog.”

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Now he’s a dead one, according to the organization he served.

In a statement, the ISIS propaganda agency Amaq said he was “martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns in Aleppo,” in Syria.

The Pentagon is being cautious, or perhaps a little coy. A senior defense official said “coalition forces conducted an airstrike in al-Bab, Syria,” and the target was a “senior leader” in ISIS. But, “We are still assessing the results of the operation at this time.”

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Adnani would be by far the most important ISIS leadership target yet eliminated by coalition forces.

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