The US military says it has killed several leading militants from the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, including the second-in-command who was serving as the group’s finance minister.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday that a US special operations team killed the top Daesh terrorist on Thursday during a pre-dawn raid in Syria.
“We are systematically eliminating ISIL’s cabinet,” said Carter at a press briefing at the Pentagon. He gave no details about how he died.
“The removal of this ISIL leader will hamper the organization’s ability to conduct operations both inside and outside of Iraq and Syria,” Carter said.
Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, also known as Abu Ala al-Afri or Haji Iman was a former physics professor from Iraq who originally joined the al-Qaeda terror…