
Good f*cking riddance.
Via NBC News:
The No. 2 man in ISIS, who was at the top of the U.S. kill list, is dead, according to a media arm of the terrorist organization.
The circumstances of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s death in Aleppo, Syria, have not been confirmed. Officials in Washington — who had put out a $5 million reward for al-Adnani — had no immediate comment.
The 37-year-old, who was ISIS’ director of external operations and main spokesman, is best known for issuing an edict for lone wolves to kill Westerners in September 2014.
“If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be,” he said.
“Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.”
As NBC News reported in December, al-Adnani was the No. 1 name on the U.S. list of ISIS leaders it wanted to kill.
“Adnani has been the main voice behind issuing ISIS threats to the West,” Laith al-Khouri of Flashpoint Intelligence, an NBC counterterrorism analyst, said at the time. “He is so admired and glorified by jihadists worldwide that he stands as a primary point of recruitment.”
