By Xinhua
Baghdad : Iraqi security forces killed the finance minister of Sunni militant group Al Qaeda, who have proclaimed a self-styled Islamic state in Iraq, during a military operation in Diyala province, a provincial security source said Saturday.
“Security force from Diyala province killed Friday afternoon Thaer Salim Dawoud, the finance minister of the so-called Islamic state in Iraq, during a military operation in al-Hashemiyat village in northeast of the provincial capital of Baquba, ” the source said on condition of anonymity.
The village is a stronghold of Sunni extremists coming from Afghanistan and some Arab countries, the source told Xinhua over telephone.
Dawoud is on the wanted list of the Iraq security forces over charges of killing and inciting sectarian violence, the source said.