Fightback: US Airstrike Obliterates ISIS Leader In Wake Of Paris Atrocities

Hours after the blasts and shootings in Paris killed 129 people, Abu Nabil ISIS' leader, was killed in a precise hit from the US in Libya.

Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, died after an F-15 jet pounded a compound in the city of Derna.

GOTCHA: The ISIS leader in Libya has been blitzed by an air strike

ISIS has grown in prominence in Libya since the country became destabilised four years ago following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.

Nabil was targeted because of his close ties to the central ISIS leadership in Syria and Iraq.

Washington says the attack was planned before the attacks by ISIS on a concert hall, football stadium and restaurants in Paris.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said: "Nabil's death will degrade ISIL's ability to meet the group's objectives in Libya, including recruiting new ISIL members, establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United States."

Nabil, an Iraqi national, was a longtime al-Qaeda operative and senior ISIS leader in Libya, the Pentagon said.

JET: A US fighter jet like the one used to target the ISIS leader in Libya

US airstrikes have targeted militants outside the main battlefields of Iraq and Syria, but this strike was significant because of Nabil's close ties to ISIS' main leadership, one official said.

He said: "There's a lot of people around the world who call themselves ISIL. But those are people who have taken the ISIL brand and there's no relationship with the home office.

"But this guy (Nabil) had a no-kidding relationship back with main ISIL."
Cook said it was the first strike against an Islamic State leader in Libya.

An eye-witness in Derna said aircraft using night-vision systems carried out airstrikes in places controlled by militants of ISIS.

ISIS fighters in Libya have massacred Christian Egyptians on a Libyan beach, publicly flogged criminals in Sirte, stormed oilfields, and attacked a five-star Tripoli hotel.