Posted on 12/29/2015 3:46:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S.-led coalition killed multiple figures within ISIS senior leadership over the last few weeks, including an operative closely linked to the ringleader of the November attacks in Paris, the spokesman 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 airstrikes.
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.
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.
"I think any organization that sees its middle and upper management degraded in this way is going to lose some of their synergy," he said. "It's difficult to command and control an organization without the command and control personnel."
The coalition has also killed other senior ISIS figures in recent months, such Mohammed Emwazi, aka "Jihadi John," and before that Abu Sayyaf, a senior figure in the group's oil and petroleum operations.
Warren's detailing of recent U.S. successes in taking out ISIS figures coincides with a stepped-up effort by the Obama administration to broadcast its wins in taking on ISIS to reassure the American public that it has an effective approach for combatting the terror group.
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I am GLAD. But “US led” is being seen a lot more in the news now that Russia is doing something substantial.
I NEVER want failure from our military and would like to see Iraq stable. And ISIS DESTROYED.
I DONT want obummer or hitlery getting ANY credit for the mess THEY caused.
That's exactly what this article is about. Giving them credit for something they didn't do.
So far, from the excerpt, the ones who deserve credit are 'coalition forces of NATO'.
of course
and candy crush, blacklivesmatter, you go girl, empowerment, micro aggression, check your privilege, safe space, dreamers, gay and freak and abortion and muslim and euthanasia rights....
all more important than spending 10 minutes a day reading about what’s really going on in the world.
and i’ll say it. especially among women under 50, who are killing us with their vote.
FReepers excepted, of course.
They are always found after the attacks. This leads me to suspect our politicians are using them and after the attacks they become disposable.
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