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.
Cook said al-Sudani was a planner who was involved in plotting attacks against the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
The Pentagon says in addition to al-Sudani, two others were also killed in the same strike: al-Sudani’s wife and an Australian national identified as “Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad, also known as Umm Isa Amriki.”
“Both al-Sudani and his wife were active in recruiting foreign fighters in efforts to inspire attacks against Western interests,” Cook said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday.
“The death of al-Sudani and Shadi remove influential ISIL recruiters and extremists who actively sought to harm Western interests and further disrupts and degrades ISIL’s ability to plot external attacks,” Cook said.
