The organization considered what it described as " rebels " and its fighters as fighting in a unified manner, indicating that al-Issawi was killed in 2008 by members of Backwater U.S. security Company .

Iraqi and Arab media circulated al-Issawi’s death on Friday in the battles that took place in Anbar province .

Daash organization said through its pages used to publish information on the social networking site , Twitter, briefed by “Shafaq News " that "Today Al-Arabiya and other news sites published that Abu al-Hasan al-Issawi was killed by clan’s rebels in Anbar to create strife as they have been annoyed by our unity... and emphasize that there are no problems between us “.

The published statement, tilted " Al-Arabiya and discord between the rebels and the Islamic State, " said that " the martyr , in God willing, Abu al-Hasan al-Issawi is the Media Minister of the State of Islam was born in Fallujah and of the first in the Tawhid and Jihad group led by al-Zarqawi - to 2006 when he had been arrested by Americans and then he escaped from Sousa prison northern Iraq .. but he continued to work and did not stop until he was killed in a clash with mercenaries of Backwaters in 2008 in Baghdad. "