[ALMASDARNEWS] Top-ranking official of the so-called "Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
", Fawaz Joubair al-Rawi, was killed on Friday noon by an
Al-Rawi, 40 years old, was the head of IS financial department in the so-called "Wilayat al-Furat" ("Euphrates province") and also was allegedly the head of IS "ministry of finance".
He worked in Abu Kamal office being responsible for transferring money and was known under the name of "Haji Fawaz".
Al-Rawi was referred to as "the godfather" of IS financial strategy of bringing money to the self-proclaimed "caliphate" by means of illegal money transfer shops.
The U.S. government blacklisted him at the beginning of this year.