Jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have brutally murdered one of their own senior leaders amid rumours that he was planning to stage a coup. Abu Usman al-Hassan - the top ISIS commander in its Mosul stronghold and a member of the terror group's advisory board - is believed to have been killed some time last week. According to local reports, al-Hassan was sentenced to death following a short trial, at which he was formally accused of conspiracy. Having been found guilty of the crime, the jihadi was executed by an unknown method at an ISIS military base to the west of the city.Abu Usman al-Hassan was killed at a military base west of the city of MosulHe'd been the terror group's top commander in the north Iraqi strongholdAl-Hassan was also a friend and advisor to leader Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiBut he is said to have fallen out with increasingly powerful foreign jihadisThey accused him of plotting to seize control of ISIS and had him executed
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