BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday the deputy commander of Islamic State insurgents had been killed in a coalition air strike on a mosque where he was meeting with other militants in the north of the country.
More than 60 countries led by the United States launched a campaign last summer to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State, an ultra-radical Sunni Islamist group that had seized large areas of Iraq and Syria. The coalition has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State in both Iraq and neighboring Syria.
"Based on accurate intelligence, an air strike by the coalition forces targeted the second in command of IS, Abu Alaa al-Afari," the ministry said in a statement on its website.
Abu Alaa al-Afari, whose real name is Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, is an ethnic Turkmen from the town of Tel Afar in northwestern Iraq, and is thought to be second in command of Islamic State under self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
In Washington, the Pentagon said it was aware of the reports but could not confirm them.
http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-defense-ministry-says-second-command-islamic-state-144216033.html 
Can't they just shut the hell up? Accurate intelligence - someone talked and ISIL WILL be looking for them.
