U.S. says ISIS militant behind American Peter Kassig's murder killed in airstrike
Source: CBS News
December 3, 2018, 7:28 AM
The U.S. military confirmed on Monday that an airstrike in Syria has killed a senior ISIS militant involved in the 2014 murder of U.S. Army Ranger turned aid worker Peter Kassig. U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement to CBS News on Monday that Abu al Umarayn was killed in Syria's southeastern Badiyah Desert region on Sunday by a coalition strike.
CENTCOM said "several other ISIS members" were killed in the strike, but singled out Umarayn, saying he had "given indications of posing an imminent threat to Coalition Forces and he was involved in the killing of American Citizen and former U.S. Army Ranger, Peter Kassig. He has been linked to and directly involved with executing several other prisoners as a senior ISIS member."
Then-President Barack Obama confirmed in November 2014 that Kassig had been killed in Syria, shortly after ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) published a gruesome video online purportedly showing his decapitation.
Kassig was captured in 2013, as ISIS began to claim new territory in both Iraq and Syria, where he was doing aid work.
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