Abu Saleh

Muwaffaq Mustafa Mohammed al-Karmoush
موفق مصطفى محمد الكرموش
Born	(1973-02-01)1 February 1973 Iraq
Died	November 2015 (aged 42) Iraq
Cause of death	Airstrike
Nationality	Iraqi
Other names	Abu Saleh al-Afri
Citizenship	Iraqi
Organization	Islamic State

Muwaffaq Mustafa Mohammed al-Karmoush (1 February 1973 – November 2015), known by his kunya Abu Saleh al-Afri, was an Iraqi man and senior financier for the Islamic State.^[1]

History

Abu Saleh was born on 1 February 1973 in Iraq.^[2]

US Sanctions

He was sanctioned on 29 September 2015 by the United States Department of the Treasury. According to the US Treasury, he "supervised ISIL's financial affairs, including salary payments. He previously oversaw ISIL’s military financial affairs and served as one of AQI’s financial chiefs."^[3]

Death

He was reported killed in an American airstrike on 10 December 2015. The date of the airstrike was described as 'within recent weeks'. Other reports said the strike took place in November 2015.^[4]

Col. Steve Warren of the US Army, formerly the American military spokesman in Baghdad, described him as "one of the most senior and experienced members of ISIL’s financial network" and "a legacy Al-Qaeda member".^[5][6]

Col. Warren further called Abu Salah "one of the most senior and experienced members" of the militant group's financial network. "Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to co-ordinate funding within the organisation," Col Warren said.^[7]

References

1. al-Hashimi, Hisham (9 July 2014). "Revealed: the Islamic State 'cabinet', from finance minister to suicide bomb deployer". Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
2. "Counter Terrorism Designations". U.S. Department of Treasury. United States Government. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
3. "Treasury Sanctions Major Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Leaders, Financial Figures, Facilitators, and Supporters". U.S. Department of Treasury. United States Government. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
4. Adamczyk, Ed (11 December 2015). "Islamic State finance chief killed in airstrike". UPI. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
5. Roggio, Bill (11 December 2015). "US military fails to 'decimate' Islamic State leadership despite thousands of airstrikes". The Long War Journal. Public Multimedia Inc. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
6. Warren, Steve (10 December 2015). "Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Warren via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq". U.S. Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
7. "Islamic State finance chief 'killed in air strikes'". BBC News Online. BBC Online. BBC. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2019.