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Eugene

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 03:01 PM Apr 2016

U.S. says it killed ISIS militant who killed Marine in Iraq

Source: Reuters

World | Sun Apr 3, 2016 10:45am EDT

U.S. says it killed ISIS militant who killed Marine in Iraq

The anti-Islamic State coalition conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria has killed the IS militant believed responsible for an attack on U.S. troops in northern Iraq last month that left a Marine dead, it said on Sunday.

Militant Jasim Khadijah, a former Iraqi officer not considered a high-value target, was killed by a drone strike overnight in northern Iraq, coalition spokesman U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters in Baghdad.

"We have information (that) he was a rocket expert, he controlled these attacks," said Warren, referring to the shelling of a base used by U.S. troops near the town of Makhmour, located between Mosul and Kirkuk.

That attack killed Marine Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin and wounded eight others, all part of a company-sized detachment of less than 200 troops. They provide force protection fire to Iraqi army troops, who are making slow progress in a campaign to clear areas around Mosul, an IS stronghold.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-usa-idUSKCN0X00JS
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