Paris attacks: IS commanders 'killed in US-led strikes'
Source: BBC News
Targeted US-led coalition air strikes have killed 10 Islamic State commanders in Iraq and Syria in the past month, a US military spokesman has said.
Some were linked to last month's attacks in Paris and planning further attacks on the West, US Army Colonel Steve Warren added.
He named one as Charaffe al-Mouadan, who he said had a direct link to Paris attack cell leader Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Another was a UK-educated Bangladeshi computer systems engineer, he said.
The US-led coalition has been targeting IS in Iraq and Syria for over a year. Russia recently began its own air attacks against armed opponents of the Syrian government, including IS.
Syria-based Mouadan was killed in an air strike on 24 December, said Col Warren.
Another man with connections to the Paris attackers, Abdul Qader Hakim, died two days later in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, he added.
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I don't get it?
Are we carpet bombing like Ted said we should?
A fluid command structure, by its very nature is diaphanous and vacillating. This insubstantial feature is in fact, a tactical strength via dispersion of assets (though one could as easily argue a strategic weakness).
That aside, regardless of how many second-in-commands are killed, a hierarchical military will always have another to take its place, resulting in a multitude of possible KIA of that particular position, regardless of whether one perceives that as embarrassing or not. 
