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Key Jihadi Killed In Pakistan Attack
(See my previous related post here.)
U.S. Strike Killed Al Qaeda Bomb Maker
Terror Big Also Trained 'Shoe Bomber,' Moussaoui
Jan. 18, 2006 — ABC News has learned that al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week's U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan.
Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, was identified by Pakistani authorities as one of three known al Qaeda leaders present at an apparent terror summit conference in the village of Damadola.
The United States had posted a $5 million reward for Mursi's capture. He is described by U.S. authorities as the man who ran al Qaeda's infamous Derunta training camp in Afghanistan, where he used dogs and other animals as subjects of experiments with poison and chemicals.
[Read on here. Hat tip: Michelle]
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Bill Roggio and Andrew Cochran have more. In Mr. Roggio's words "Claims the airstrike in Damadola only killed innocent villagers can now be laid to rest."
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From Reuters:
Pakistan names 3 al Qaeda believed killed in strike
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence sources on Thursday
identified three of four al Qaeda members believed to have been killed
by a U.S. airstrike last week, though they have yet to recover the
bodies.
One of the dead was said to be Abdul Rehman Al-Misri al Maghribi, a
son-in-law of al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri. Maghribi
was responsible for al Qaeda's media department.
Another was Midhat Mursi al-Sayid 'Umar, an expert in explosives
and poisons who carried a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head under the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's Rewards for Justice program.
Pakistani officials gave a slightly different spelling for the
name, but the FBI says 'Umar ran a training camp at Derunta in
Afghanistan and since 1999 had proliferated training manuals
containing crude recipes for chemical and biological weapons.
The third man identified was Abu Obaidah al Misri, al Qaeda's chief
of operations in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, where U.S. and
Afghan forces regularly come under attack from militant groups.
[Read on
here.]
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