In a statement rare for its specificity, a US Army spokesman, Colonel Steve Warren, announced yesterday that targeted American air strikes had killed 10 senior ISIS commanders in Syria and Iraq in the past month, among them Charaffe al-Mouadan, a 27 years old Frenchman also known as Souleymane, who had direct links to the Paris cell leader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and was “actively planning” further attacks.
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Al-Mouadan was also a childhood friend of Samy Amimour, one three ISIS killers who murdered dozens at the Bataclan concert venue, in the deadly attack on 13 November, 2015.
Another man targeted and killed in recent US strikes is a British-educated Bangladeshi national, a computer systems engineer, Warren said, whose loss will impair ISIS’ ability to maintain its cybernetic edge.