Macron Announces France Killed ISIS Leader Responsible For Deaths Of U.S. Servicemembers

On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that French forces have killed an ISIS leader in Africa who led a group responsible for one of the deadliest attacks on American soldiers in Africa.

“The militant leader, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, oversaw a group that claimed responsibility for an attack in 2017 that killed four American soldiers who were on patrol with Nigerien forces,” The New York Times reported. “And in August 2020, Mr. Al-Sahraoui personally ordered the killing of six French charity workers and their Nigerien driver.”

“The 2017 assault was one of the deadliest recent attacks on American soldiers in Africa,” the New York Times added. “In addition to the four Americans, including two members of the Green Berets, five Nigerien soldiers who were with them on a joint mission were killed.”

Macron announced the “major success” on Twitter.

“Adnan Abou Walid al Sahraoui, leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara was neutralized by French forces. This is another major success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel,” Macron wrote. “The Nation is thinking this evening of all its heroes who died for France in the Sahel in the Serval and Barkhane operations, of the bereaved families, of all of its wounded. Their sacrifice is not in vain. With our African, European and American partners, we will continue this fight.”

The news comes after reports that the Biden administration killed a worker for a U.S. aid group who was originally suspected of being an ISIS-K member that was involved with the attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members a few weeks.

According to an exclusive report from the New York Times, the man targeted by a U.S. drone strike was identified as “Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group.”

The New York Times reported, “a New York Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver’s co-workers and family members in Kabul, raises doubts about the U.S. version of events, including whether explosives were present in the vehicle, whether the driver had a connection to ISIS, and whether there was a second explosion after the missile struck the car.”

“Military officials said they did not know the identity of the car’s driver when the drone fired, but deemed him suspicious because of how they interpreted his activities that day, saying that he possibly visited an ISIS safe house and, at one point, loaded what they thought could be explosives into the car,” the outlet added.

“Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group,” the Times wrote. “The evidence suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family.”

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