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 The facility was used to store profits from oil, looting and extortion, a Pentagon official said, as US-led coalition targets group’s financial capabilities 
 
 'Millions' in Isis cash destroyed in airstrike on storage site in Mosul 
 
 A US-led coalition airstrike has destroyed a cash distribution site used by Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul. 
 
 
 
 “The bulk cash distribution site was used by [Isis] to distribute money to fund terrorist activities,” Lieutenant Commander Ben Tisdale, a US spokesman said in a statement. 
 
 Two 900kg (2,000lb) bombs struck the facility, destroying “millions” of dollars worth of cash, a Pentagon official told AFP on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity. 
 
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 “We estimate in the millions of dollars ... from all their illicit stuff: oil, looting, extortion,” the official said. The bombing took place early on Monday. 
 
 CNN, which first reported the strike, said the US military believed between five and seven civilians had been killed. 
 
 The US-led coalition carrying out plane and drone strikes against the IS group in Iraq and Syria has been increasingly targeting the jihadists’ money-making capabilities, including by bombing trucks that ferry illicit oil across Syria. 
 
 Under pressure from critics who say the campaign is moving too slowly, the Pentagon has indicated it would consider a wider array of targets even if these might cause civilian deaths, provided these attacks yield significant gains against the jihadists. 
 
 The Pentagon official said the coalition had targeted cash-holding facilities once or twice in the past year, but the most recent action was “probably” the biggest to date. 
 
 It was not immediately clear if the money had been in US dollars, some other foreign currency, or local dinars, the official added. ||||| A Navy F-18 returns from a mission against Islamic State targets. (Photo: John Philip Wagner Jr., AP) 
 
 WASHINGTON — Military units have notified their members whose names and addresses were included on a "kill list" created by alleged sympathizers of the Islamic State group, a Pentagon official said Monday. 
 
 The list, which was posted online and reported over the weekend, includes the identities of 100 pilots, airmen, sailors and commanders involved in the U.S.-led airstrikes against the group in Iraq and Syria. 
 
 Troops on the list are being notified, Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday. Some of the names on the list are no longer in the military. 
 
 The group that posted the information identified itself as the Islamic State Hacking Division. Its list features the photographs of service members along with their names, rank and home addresses. That information, Warren said, was publicly available and did not come from a data breach. In many cases, the troops' identities are on military web sites and social media pages. 
 
 Similar threats have occurred before, said two Defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the nature of past threats. 
 
 "The Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD) has hacked several military servers, databases and emails and with all this access we have successfully obtained personal information related to military personnel in the United States Air Force, NAVY & Army...," the group's web site said. "With the huge amount of data we have from various different servers and databases, we have decided to leak 100 addresses so that our brothers residing in America can deal with you." 
 
 The Army is working with the Defense Department to determine the validity of any threats, an Army statement Monday said. "In the meantime, our Criminal Investigation Division is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has provided the information to local units and, as always, we encourage soldiers to take prudent measures to limit the sharing of personal information online," the statement said. 
 
 U.S. aircraft have been flying missions against Islamic State targets since August. The group is also known as ISIL or ISIS. 
 
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– The US-led coalition against the Islamic State is apparently hitting 'em where it hurts, destroying between $500 million and $800 million in cash via airstrikes overseas, a US military official tells the BBC. In a press briefing, Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten said that recently acquired internal ISIS documents indicate the attacks against the group have led to a 90% increase in defections, as well as fewer recruits: Per CNN, Gersten noted that only 200 foreigners now join ISIS per month (as opposed to up to 2,000 a month a year ago) and that some members are even coming up with doctors' notes to get out of fighting duty. Although he didn't spell out how the US calculated those estimates, Gersten said fewer than 20 airstrikes specifically targeting the cash stashes—including money used to pay for sex slaves—were carried out. "We're seeing a fracture in their morale, we're seeing their inability to pay … we're watching them try to leave," Gersten said. He noted that the documents suggest ISIS has had to sell vehicles, slash fighter salaries in half, and implore members to cut down on electricity use, among other cost-cutting measures. (The Pentagon has also been "dropping cyberbombs" on ISIS.)