DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2015 – A June 15 U.S. airstrike in
Mosul, Iraq, killed a known Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant operative and
organizational intermediary who was a person of interest in the Sept. 11, 2012,
attack against U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, Pentagon officials announced
yesterday.
Ali Awni al-Harzi operated closely with multiple
ISIL-associated extremists throughout North Africa and the Middle East,
officials said.
“His death degrades ISIL's ability to integrate North
African jihadists into the Syrian and Iraqi fight and removes a jihadist with
long ties to international terrorism," officials said in a statement
announcing that Harzi was killed in the airstrike.
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