Islamabad—Talking to a private tv channel on conditions of anonymity, a highly-placed senior US administration official confirmed the death of Abu Hafs al-Shahri in an attack last week. “It has been confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed earlier this week in Waziristan, Pakistan,” the official said.
The official observed that Abu Hafs’ death would further degrade al Qaeda’s ability to recover from the death last month of Al-Qaeda’s number two, Atiyah Abdul Rehman. The official, however, declined narrating details of operation that killed Abu Hafs or whether he was killed in a drone strike.
source pakobserver.net
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