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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on September 01, 2017, 12:37:20 am
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Islamic State ‘finance emir for Mosul’ relocated to Turkey, US says
By Thomas Joscelyn | August 31, 2017 | tjoscelyn@gmail.com | @thomasjoscelyn
On Aug. 29, the Treasury Department announced that a senior Islamic State official, Salim Mustafa Muhammad al-Mansur, had been added to the US government’s list of specially designated global terrorists. The move was carried out in conjunction with the Iraqi government, which seeks “to bar Mansur from the Iraqi financial system and freeze any assets he may have subject to Iraq’s jurisdiction.”
Mansur was identified as the Islamic State’s “finance emir for Mosul,” Iraq earlier this year. But according to Treasury he is not located in Iraq, as he “moved to Turkey.” The US listed three locations inside Turkey — Mersin, Istanbul, and Adana — where he has been based.
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