killed, apparently, by u.s. air strikes? >> well, i think we have to temper this a little bit. several of these individuals, when we say six weeks, there was a report in late july that one of these individuals was actually killed. so the other one, the amir of mosul, or isis commander, he was (s÷ @&h(lc% sources. so some of these individuals seem to be fairly high ranking. certainly, if he's the commander of mosul for isis, that's a senior commander. but this is not that recent. this is -- it's kind of odd they're making this announcement right our. because, you know, some of these guys have been dead for a while now. and, you know, just to be -- put this in context, in conversations i've had with folks in u.s. intelligence, the reaction that i've gotten has been u.s. air strikes really are not that effective in the sense that they have stopped isis' campaign temporarily. but they're not achieving that many big hits in terms of senior isis leadership or in terms of
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