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Showing posts with label Qaeda's operational chief in Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Qaeda's operational chief in Pakistan. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 September 2011

US claims killing of Qaeda's operational chief in Pakistan

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