TerrorismISIS rocket expert killed in U.S. strike
Jasim Khadijah, a former Iraqi officer in Saddam Hussein’s army who joined ISIS and led the organization’s rocket development effort, was killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq Sunday. Khadijah was responsible for a rocket attack last month on a U.S. military base near the town of Makhmour, located between Mosul and Kirkuk. That attack killed marine staff sergeant Louis Cardin and wounded eight others.
Jasim Khadijah, a former Iraqi officer in Saddam Hussein’s army who joined ISIS and led the organization’s rocket development effort, was killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq Sunday, coalition spokesman Colonel Steve Warren told reporters in Baghdad.
CNN reports that Khadijah was responsible for a rocket attack last month on a U.S. military base near the town of Makhmour, located between Mosul and Kirkuk. That attack killed marine staff sergeant Louis Cardin and wounded eight others. They were part of a detachment of fewer than 200 American troops providing force protection fire to Iraqi army troops.
“We have information [that] he was a rocket expert, he controlled these attacks,” Warren said, referring to the shelling of the base.
Warren said five other ISIS fighters were killed in Sunday’s strike.
