Daesh finance chief killed in Iraq air strike: US

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Daesh finance chief killed in Iraq air strike: US

Smoke believed to be from an airstrike billows over the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar.

Washington - "Abu Saleh was the third member of the finance network that we have killed" recently, Warren added.

By AFP

Published: Fri 11 Dec 2015, 2:36 PM

Last updated: Fri 11 Dec 2015, 6:57 PM

A coalition air strike killed a Daesh finance chief in Iraq last month, the US military said on Thursday, hailing it as another scalp in its bid to blow apart the militants' financial network.
Abu Saleh was killed in late November, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a videoconference from Baghdad, calling him "one of the most senior and experienced members" of the group's financial system.
"Abu Saleh was the third member of the finance network that we have killed" recently, Warren added.

Confirmed: Death of #ISIL finance minister Abu Saleh & 2 associates as part of coalition campaign to destroy ISIL's financial infrastructure
- Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) December 10, 2015

Abu Saleh was killed along with two associates as part of the US-led coalition's campaign to destroy the group's financial infrastructure, Brett McGurk, Washington's envoy for the anti-Daesh fight, said on Twitter.
Real name Muwaffaq Mustafa Muhammad al-Karmush, the US State Department's terrorist blacklist describes him as a 42-year-old Iraqi.
"Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to coordinate funding within the organization," Warren said, adding that two other henchmen in Daesh fundraising networks also were killed in coalition air strikes in Iraq in late November.
They were identified as Abu Mariam, an enforcer and senior leader in Daesh group extortion networks, and Abu Rahman Al Tunisi, who Warren said coordinated the militant group's transfer of people, weapons and information.
Abu Mariam appears on the State Department terrorist list as Mounir Ben Dhaou Ben Brahim Ben Helal, a 32-year-old Tunisian.
After the attacks in Paris last month, the United States said it was deploying a special operations unit in Iraq that will be able to mount raids into Syria to capture or kill Daesh leaders.