A Dec. 4 coalition airstrike in Syria killed three Islamic State leaders, including two facilitators of the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, according to the Pentagon.
The airstrike in Raqqa killed Salah Gourmat and Sammy Djedou, who were involved in planning the Paris attack and were close associates of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the group’s external operations leader who was killed in an August airstrike, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement on Tuesday.
The third leader killed was Walid Hamman, who Cook said was a suicide attack planner convicted in absentia in Belgium for a disrupted terror plot last year.
“All three were part of a network led by Boubaker Al-Hakim, who was killed in another coalition airstrike on Nov. 26,” the statement said. “The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike.”
