U.S. airstrikes on the Khorasan group in Syria reportedly killed a French bomb-maker believed to be the head of the terror group's bomb-making operations, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Khorasan bomb-maker, and former French intelligence officer, David Drugeon was believed to have been hit in a vehicle targeted during the latest round of American airstrikes, according to U.S. officials.

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Officials said two U.S. airstrikes  late Wednesday and early Thursday hit the terror group made up of senior Al Qaeda leaders who relocated to Syria.

One airstrike was a missile fired from a drone plane that was believed to wipe out Drugeon's car around Sarmada about 20 miles northeast of Idlib province. The second airstrike hit a Khorasan assembly area deep inside Syria. Officials believed the targeted buildings and vehicles were being used by Khorasan for training, meetings and making bombs.

Drugeon was a major target for anti-terrorist efforts. Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander in charge of Central Command military operations, said Drugeon clearly was one of the top Khorasan leadership elements. "Any time we can take their leadership out, it's a good thing," Austin told CBS News.

Drugeon was considered the top bomb-maker in the Al Qaeda arsenal. Believed to be around 24 years old, he fought in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2012 to early this year when he went to Syria. He escaped previous strikes on September 22 against Khorasan whom U.S. officials refer to as the Al Qaeda "A Team." He was believed to be supervising efforts to stage major bomb attacks in the West.

Growing up in a working class Brittany region neighborhood, Drugeon was the son of a secretary mother and bud driver father who divorced when he was 13 years old. He started associating with youthful Muslim radicals and converted on his 14th birthday.

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