Terrorist Group Names New 'War Minister'

May 14 2010

Iraq

A terrorist umbrella group in Iraq has named a new "war minister" and threatened majority Shi'ites with "dark days colored in blood," Reuters reports.

A statement from the group, posted on an Internet Web site, named al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman as the new war minister of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which consists of several Iraqi insurgent groups.

In May, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, a commander of ISI also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, and ISI head Abu Omar al-Baghdadi...

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