Austrailian ISIS Recruiter Killed By US Airstrike

CNN.com reports that an Australian ISIS recruiter who called on his countrymen to “start attacking before they attack you” has died in a U.S. airstrike.

Neil Prakash was the country’s “most prominent” ISIS recruiter and its “highest value target,” according to Australian Attorney General George Brandis.

“He was the individual more than any other who had been actively inspiring and inciting domestic terrorism attacks within Australia,” Brandis said in an interview with CNN affiliate Sky News.

Prakash was killed on April 29 in Mosul, Iraq by a U.S. airstrike, Brandis said in a statement.

He had been linked to several plans to attack his homeland and called for lone-wolf strikes against the United States.

The ISIS recruiter also appeared in propaganda videos in English, in which he told his personal story, exhorted his countryman to “rise up” and invited them to join the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull told Sky News Australia that Prakash had been a target for some time. He also warned other Australians that if they go and choose to fight with ISIS they could meet the same fate.

“They will be targeted. They are waging war against Australia and they are enemies of Australia once they choose to wage that war in those theaters,” Turnbull said.

Attorney General Brandis also announced the death of another Australian citizen in an air strike in Syria on April 22.

Brandis said Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad was an active recruiter of foreign fighters for ISIS.