ISIS second in command killed in US airstrike, says White House

Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, aka Haji Mutazz, is the deputy leader behind Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The White House said that al-Hayali’s death will adversely impact IS’s operations, given that his influence spanned the group’s “finance, media, operations and logistics”.

At the time of the strike, al-Hayali was traveling near Mosul, Iraq, with an ISIS media operative named Abu Abdullah. A drone strike last month killed a senior ISIL leader in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. He was responsible for coordinating the movements of large amounts of ammunition, explosives, vehicles and fighters between Syria and Iraq, Price said.

Al-Hayali was erroneously reported to have been killed in November by airstrikes.

He was a member of al-Qaida in Iraq, the predecessor group to IS.

We can only hope that more of ISIS’ chain of command is crushed by the might and resolve of United States military and our coalition partners.

In an official report, the White House announced Friday that a high-ranking member of ISIS was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this week, according to The Huffington Post.

U.S. officers stated Hayali helped plan Islamic State army advances during the last two years in Iraq, together with the militants’ lovely assault on Mosul in June 2014. In May, US Special Forces staged as raid in Syria after getting intelligence on the location of a top Islamic State financier.

US carries out air strikes every day, targeting the IS which has a self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

“But recent history cautions that leadership decapitation more often than not results in militant groups smoothly replacing those nodes in their networks”, he said.

US administration officials said it appears the States had a wrong identification at that time.

But his removal is unlikely to weaken the group, he said.