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Dead IS chief was Iraqi ex-officer nicknamed ‘Destroyer’
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.