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Coalition forces kill ISIS leader connected to Paris attack
[CNN] The U.S.-led coalition killed multiple figures within ISIS big shotship over the last few weeks, including an operative closely linked to the ringleader of the November attacks in Gay Paree, the front man for the coalition said Tuesday.Col. Steve Warren said 10 senior ISIS leaders operating in both Iraq and Syria, "including several external attack planners," with designs on attacking western targets, had been killed in Charaffe al Mouadan, a Syrian-based member of ISIS with a "direct link" to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian-born ringleader of the terror attacks in Gay Paree, was killed in a December 24 Abaaoud was killed in a police raid in the Gay Paree suburb of Saint-Denis last month and had direct contacts, the coalition said, with al Mouadan before the attacks took place, which killed more than 120 people. In addition to al Mouadan, nine other figures focused on everything from planning attacks on Western targets to overseeing ISIS finances to the organization's hacking efforts were killed in Posted by: Fred 2015-12-30 |
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