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ISIS attack planner killed in April airstrike in Syria

By Jamie McIntyre

Published May 5, 2016 6:41pm ET

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ISIS attack planner killed in April airstrike in Syria — Cook said al-Sudani was a planner who was involved in plotting attacks against the U.S., Canada and the U.K. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) | Hasan Jamali

The coalition fighting the Islamic State killed a key “external attack planner” for the group in an airstrike in Syria last month, the Pentagon announced.

Spokesman Peter Cook said Abu Sa’ad al-Sudani, also known as Abu Isa Al Amriki, a Sudanese national, was killed by coalition airpower near Al-Bab, Syria, April 22.

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