Pentagon: Airstrike Targets French IS Operative in Mosul

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Pentagon: Airstrike Targets French IS Operative in Mosul

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Kassim traveled to Syria with his wife and three children in 2012 and has been tied to at least four plots to attack France since June 2016.

Among them was the murder of a French priest in Normandy, France, in June 2016 and the attempted attack on the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, when three French women parked a car filled with explosives nearby. The women were later arrested.

In an IS video from 2016, Kassim was shown beheading a captive and threatened French President Francois Hollande. He also called on French citizens to carry out attacks.

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