Noureddine Chouchane
From WikiAlpha
Noureddine Chouchane was a Libyan who was targetted by the United States, and killed by a missile fired by a unmanned aerial vehicle.[1][2]
According to United States intelligence officials Chouchane was a senior leader of ISIS, who planned the March 18, 2015 terrorist bombing at the Bardo Musuem.[3][4] Jeff Seldin of Voice of America noted that, on January 4, 2018, when it listed Wanas al-Faqih on its list of specially designated global terrorists, it said he too planned the Bardo Museum bombing - even though he was a leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb - a rival group.
References
- ↑ Sudarsan Raghavan; Missy Ryan; Brian Murphy (2016-02-19). "U.S. strike on Libya camp escalates campaign against Islamic State". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/reports-airstrikes-target-suspected-islamic-state-base-in-libya/2016/02/19/e622c12a-d6f7-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ Thomas Gibbons-Neff. "U.S. airstrike kills more than 150 at Somalia terrorist camp, military says". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/07/u-s-drone-strike-kills-more-than-150-in-somalia/. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ↑ Jeff Seldin (2018-05-25). "On Africa's Terror Landscape, Double Agents Abound". Voice of America. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20201109042212/https://www.voanews.com/usa/africas-terror-landscape-double-agents-abound. Retrieved 2021-01-03. "Only that was a problem. Whereas Chouchane was working for Islamic State, Faqih was known for his work for IS's northern African rival, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)."
- ↑ Jeff Seldin (2018-01-04). "Interesting. @StateDept says #AQIM associate Wanas al-Faqih planned the deadly March 2015 #Bardo Museum attack in #Tunis. In Feb 2016 @DeptofDefense targeted #ISIS senior facilitator Noureddine Chouchane, calling him a suspect in the Bardo attack". Twitter. https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/949067523399606272. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
