ISIS leader linked to Paris attacks killed in airstrike

According Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesperson based in Baghdad, two suspects in the deadly Paris attacks claimed by ISIL were killed this month by coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.

A French national, Charaffe al-Mouadan, 27, a native of the St Denis suburb of Paris, was among 10 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leaders killed in air raids targeting its leadership, Colonel Warren added.

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 Paris, was killed in a December 24 airstrike, and was “actively planning additional attacks against the West,” Warren said.

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It could be recalled that 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.

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 airstrikes dating back to December 7.

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