IS finance chief confirmed killed in air strike: US

December 11, 2015 03:35

The Islamic State group's finance chief has been confirmed killed in a coalition air strike last month, US officials said today.

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 network.

The US government's envoy for the anti-IS fight, Brett McGurk, said on Twitter that Abu Saleh was killed along with two associates "as part of coalition campaign to destroy ISIL's financial infrastructure," describing him as the group's "finance minister."

Abu Saleh's real name is Muwaffaq Mustafa Muhammad al-Karmush, described in a State Department terrorist blacklist as a 42-year-old Iraqi.

"Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to coordinate funding within the organisation," Warren said.

The military spokesmen said two other figures in IS fundraising networks also were killed in coalition air strikes in late November.

They were identified as Abu Mariam, an enforcer and senior leader in IS extortion networks, and Abu Waqman al-Tunis, who Warren said coordinated IS's transfer of people, weapons and information.

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