We killed, sir

Moscow’s statement that the influential commander and spokeswoman for the Islamic State Abu Muhammad al-Adnani died as a result of a Russian strike, is not true. According to Reuters, a certain pentagon official stated this on the terms of anonymity.

“The Russian statement is a joke,” the agency reports the words of his interlocutor.

Later, the White House spokesman Josh Ernest noted that there is no evidence confirming the information of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

On Wednesday night, the Pentagon said that Abu Muhammad was killed at the raid of American aviation.

Meanwhile, on the afternoon of August 31, Interfax reported with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense that the IS commander died as a result of a Russian blow. It was claimed that the Su-34 bomber in the Kurdish village of the Maarret-House in Muhafaz Khaleb (Aleppo) raided a group of up to 40 militants, including Abu Muhammad.

The death of Abu Muhammad from the air strike was reported on Tuesday by the AMAQ news agency - the official resource of IG. It was claimed that the commander was killed, "when he was checking the course of the operation to repel attacks on Aleppo."

Some sources called Abu Muhammad a second person in IG after the Caliph Abu Bakra al-Baghdadi, who died on June 11, when a coalition led by the United States, on the capital of Islamist Rakka. Among other things, the press secretary of the IG gained fame with the calls with calls for terrorist attacks against citizens of Western countries. The last of such appeals was published in May of this year. The US State Department for information about the whereabouts of Abu Muhammad appointed a reward of $ 5 million.