Statement by National Security Council Spokesperson Ned Price on the Death of ISIL Deputy Leader Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali
Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, the second in command of the
terrorist group ISIL, was killed in a U.S. military air strike on August 18 while traveling in a vehicle near Mosul, Iraq, along with
an ISIL media operative known as Abu
Abdullah. Al-Hayali was an ISIL Shura Council member and, as the senior
deputy to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was a primary coordinator
for moving large amounts of weapons, explosives,
vehicles, and people between Iraq and Syria. He
supported ISIL operations in both countries and
was in charge of ISIL operations in Iraq, where he
was instrumental in planning operations over the past two years,
including the ISIL offensive in Mosul in June 2014. He was a member of
Al Qa’ida in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL, and previously served as
ISIL’s Baghdad military emir and the emir of Ninawa
Province. Al-Hayali’s death will
adversely impact ISIL’s operations given that his influence spanned
ISIL’s finance, media, operations, and logistics. The United States and
its coalition partners are determined to degrade and
destroy this terrorist group which has wrought so much harm and
suffering on the people of the region and beyond.
Source: The White House Press Office
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