Daniele Raineri

Here the key points. Abu Loqman was wounded in the same targeted airstrike north of Aleppo that killed Abu Muhammad al Adnani in August 2016 – I find hard to process this big piece of info. They were touring together the frontline near al Bab

One week later a targeted airstrike killed Abu Muhammad al Furqan. We still don’t understand what happened in 2016. It was like a dozen of Abbottabad operations compressed in one year. The doers don’t talk about them because it’s not over yet

Abu Loqman is appointed head of Amniyat, the intelligence of the Islamic State, in March 2017. and "one month later he is in Libya for a brief time to reorganize the Islamic State there"

You may remember the Islamic State in Libya in complete disarray after the loss of Sirte in December 2016 (a prolonged siege) and the carpet bombing against the remaining forces hidden in a desert camp in January 2018. Three months later they rose their heads again

After the visit of Abu Loqman, Islamic State suicide bombers targeted the offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli on May 2, 2018 – “one of the most brazen assaults on the Libyan capital in years”

If you ask me the route of Abu Loqman to get from Raqqa to Libya, I don’t know. I just remember that Italian intelligence tracked down one of the top leaders in Libya, Moez Fezzani, in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, few months before in November 2016