Pentagon has confirmed that two facilitators of Paris attack were killed in U.S. airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria.
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday that three Islamic State external attack operatives were killed in precision U.S. airstrike in Raqqa, Syria on December 4.
The three operatives were part of a network led by Boubaker Al-Hakim,” a French-Tunisian jihadi who was killed in another airstrike on November 26.
Al-Hakim, a French-Tunisian jihadi was a notorious jihad veteran who had ties to jihadi networks in Europe and North Africa. He confessed to have assassinated a prominent Tunisian politician in 2013.
According to Pentagon, al-Hakim’s three allies were plotting an attack against the West when they were struck down earlier this month.
Two of the three targeted, Salah Gourmet and Sammy Djedou linked to the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris.
A statement released by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook showed a team of terrorists dispatched by the so-called caliphate killed 130 people and wounded dozens more during that multi-pronged assault on the French capital.
