A coalition spokesman, Colonel Steve Warren, said in a news briefing Tuesday that Charaffe al-Mouadan was killed last week on December 24.
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The other slain suspect involved in the Paris attacks was identified as Abdel Kader Hakim who was killed in Mosul, Iraq on Saturday.
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“We still have a fight ahead of us”, he said.
Two days prior, a coalition air strike in Syria killed Charaffe al Mouadan, a Syria-based IS member with an direct connection to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the associated ringleader with the planned bombings and shootings in Paris on November 13 which killed 130 individuals, Warren added.
The United States says a leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State with links to terrorist attacks in Paris has been killed by US-led air strikes.
The pentagon spokesman did not elaborate on whether Mouadan was specifically plotting a certain country, but he did say ISIS terrorists overall have “eventual designs” on attacking the West.
It appeared to be the first successful targeting of anyone directly linked to the deadliest attack on civilians in France since the World War II, and in line with pledges by the USA president, Barack Obama, and other western leaders that terrorism would not go unpunished.
Islamic State is proving harder to degrade than its precursor and rival, al-Qaida, in part because the extremist group has a more diffuse command structure.
Abaaoud was killed in a police raid in the Paris 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.
One of those killed was Abdul Qader Hakim, who facilitated the militants’ external operations and had links to the Paris attack network, Warren said.
They include another IS figure who had “links” to the Paris terror network and a Bangladeshi man educated in Britain who was allegedly a hacker for Islamic State. We haven’t severed the head of this snake yet, and it’s still got fangs, we have to be clear about that.
■ Akram Muhammad Sa’ad Faris, also known as Akram Aabu, an Islamic State commander and executioner, killed December 12 in northwestern Iraq.
· The coalition killed Yunis Khalash, a.k.a. Abu Jawdat, ISIS’s deputy financial emir in Mosul on Dec 9.
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The U.S. and a dozen of its allies have been conducting the operation against the group since September previous year in a bid to crackdown on the group’s expanding influence in Syria and Iraq.
