From Counter Extremism Project <[email protected]>
Subject Key ISIS Financier Killed By U.S. Forces In Somalia
Date February 9, 2023 6:10 PM
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Late last month, President Joe Biden ordered U.S. military personnel operating
in northern Somalia to conduct a raid that resulted in the death of Bilal
al-Sudani, a senior ISIS official and former al-Shabaab financial facilitator
and recruiter. The operation also killed 10 of his associates. His death is a
direct blow to ISIS’s financial network across Africa, Europe, and Afghanistan
as the terror group relied upon al-Sudani to oversee its “financial and
logistical network.”





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Key ISIS Financier Killed By U.S. Forces In Somalia



(New York, N.Y.) — Late last month, President Joe Biden ordered
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U.S. military personnel operating in northern Somalia to conduct a raid that
resulted in the death ofBilal al-Sudani
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official and formeral-Shabaab
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recruiter. The operation also killed 10 of his associates. His death is a
direct blow to ISIS’s financial network across Africa, Europe, and Afghanistan
as the terror group relied upon al-Sudani to oversee its “financial and
logistical network.” The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated al-Sudani
as a Specially Designated National in 2012 due to his extensive history of
sponsoring terrorism. U.S. officials laterdetermined
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that he had financed “the same elements of ISIS-K” responsible for the August
2021 bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, which
killed 13 U.S. military personnel and dozens of Afghan civilians attempting to
escape Taliban rule.



To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s profile Bilal al-Sudani, please
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Al-Sudani reportedly held a significant role in ISIS’s Al-Karrar regional
office where he expanded ISIS’s activities in Africa and beyond. Al-Karrar
oversees fundraising activities and serves as a coordination hub for operations
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, various networks
between these locations, and potential cells in the United Kingdom and Northern
Ireland.



To read CEP’s resource ISIS, please click here
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“Both ISIS and al-Qaeda are expanding their reach in Africa and Afghanistan,
and the groups and their affiliates remain a substantial terrorist threat to
U.S. national security,” said CEP Advisory Board MemberAmbassador Nathan Sales
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U.S. Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism. “Al-Sudani’s
killing brings a measure of justice for the victims of the airport bombing in
Kabul. As ISIS will work quickly to rebuild in the wake of al-Sudani’s death,
the U.S. and its partners must continue to work together to identify, disrupt,
and destroy these transnational networks.”



ISIS has declared provinces in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen,
Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the North Caucasus and within
the first seven months of 2019, ISIS announced new provinces in India,
Pakistan, Turkey, and Central Africa. The group continued to expand, and in
March 2021, the U.S. designated ISIS’s provinces in Mozambique and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beyond this, the terror group has waged
attacks in Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, the Philippines, Lebanon, Bangladesh,
Indonesia, and the Palestinian territories.



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