Sunday, August 3, 2008

Senior Al Qaeda Commander Al-Masri (Midhat Mursi) is Killed

This successful airstrike shows that while terrorists may be able to hide in the mountains border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the lawless area just over the Pakistan border, that the hiding place is no longer completely safe. This strike will send a clear message to terrorists that the noose is starting to tighten, and they are going to run low on places to hide.


Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396625,00.html

"Al Qaeda confirmed in a Web statement Sunday the death of a senior commander known as a top explosives and poisons expert, who is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week.

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Al-Masri, an Egyptian militant whose real name is Midhat Mursi, had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States. He is accused of training terrorists to use poisons and explosives, and is believed to have trained homicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

He is also believed to have helped run Al Qaeda's Darunta training camp in eastern Afghanistan, until the camp was abandoned amid the 2001 U.S. invasion of the country. There he is thought to have conducted experiments in chemical and biological weapons, testing materials on dogs.
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