Islamic State releases ‘kill list’ of U.S. officials

Published April 25, 2016 6:20pm ET



The Islamic State has distributed a “kill list” containing the names of U.S. government personnel at the Pentagon, State Department, and Department of Homeland Security, as well as several other federal agencies.

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The 43 names were distributed Monday by the United Cyber Caliphate over a smartphone messaging application called Telegram, and were accompanied by phone numbers, cities and zip codes. However, street addresses were not included, and some of the information was affiliated with offices where the targets are employed. The words “wanted to be killed” were included in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian, according to Vocativ.

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