Kurdistan Region: key ISIS leader killed in US airstrikes
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By RUDAW 1 hour ago
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad.
“Shihab Ahmad Hassas
al-Lihebi, who is also known as Abu Saad and was the main assistant of
Abu Bakr Baghdadi for military affairs, was killed on Wednesday,” the
council said in a statement.
It added that another ISIS leader named Fathi, and known as Abu Abdulla, was also killed by coalition airstrikes.
The council’s statement
accused al-Lihebi of involvement in the killing of hundreds of Yezidis
in Shingal, as well as the bombing of the Nabi Younis shrine in Mosul.
The statement said al-Lihebi
belonged to the Lihebi tribe, which had joined al-Qaeda after the fall
of Saddam Hussein in 2003. It said he was known inside al-Qaeda as Abu
Qatada, and that he later joined ISIS and became its security chief in
Mosul.
Pentagon officials said this
week that three senior ISIS leaders had been killed in recent weeks by
US airstrikes in Iraq, including what it described as the terror group’s
right-hand man.
US officials say that Haji
Mutazz, described as a “deputy wali” and al-Baghdadi’s right-hand man,
was killed in early December. They also name Abd al Basit, described as
the head of ISIS military operations in Iraq, among those killed.
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