Air strike kills ISIL leader tied to Paris mass murders

CNN:

The U.S.-led coalition killed multiple figures within ISIS senior leadership over the last few weeks, including an operative closely linked to the ringleader of the November attacks in Paris, the spokesman for the coalition said Tuesday.

Col. Steve Warren said 10 senior ISIS leaders operating in both Iraq and Syria, "including several external attack planners," with designs on attacking western targets, had been killed in airstrikes.

Charaffe al Mouadan, a Syrian-based member of ISIS with a "direct link" to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian-born ringleader of the terror attacks in Paris, was killed in a December 24 airstrike, and was "actively planning additional attacks against the West," Warren said.

Abaaoud was killed in a police raid in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis last month and had direct contacts, the coalition said, with al Mouadan before the attacks took place, which killed more than 120 people.

In addition to al Mouadan, nine other figures focused on everything from planning attacks on Western targets to overseeing ISIS finances to the organization's hacking efforts were killed in airstrikes dating back to December 7.

"I think any organization that sees its middle and upper management degraded in this way is going to lose some of their synergy," he said. "It's difficult to command and control an organization without the command and control personnel."
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The group has survived serval such attacks in the past and apparently has no shortage of people willing to step up and plan assaults.  It reminds me of all the "number three" men in al Qaeda that have been taken out by drone strikes, yet the terrorist survive, because the decapitation strikes are inadequate in persuading the enemy that its cause is hopeless.  Until they find a way to do that the war will drag on.

Destroying the people responsible for the mass murderers in France is a good start.