Al-Qaida announces deaths of 4 commanders

Source: U.S.News & WORLD REPORT

Aug 3, 10:03 AM EDT

Al-Qaida announces deaths of 4 commanders

By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF
Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida 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.

The statement said Abu Khabab al-Masri and three other commanders were killed. It did not give details on when or how they were killed, but Pakistani authorities have said they believe al-Masri died in an American airstrike last Monday on a compound near the Afghan border.

Pakistani officials have said six people were killed in that strike, in the country's lawless South Waziristan tribal region.

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 suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

He is also believed to have helped run al-Qaida'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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:eyes:

A powerfull recruiting tool ....it is not



http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lPyxstgk8oM

If Pakistan cuts and runs from them,then they believe they do not have a chance in hell of beating them in their own country



Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades - Class of 2008

From left: Mahmoud Hatem (we think), Abdul Moussa (we’re almost certain), Yasir Bargouti (can tell from the size of his gun), Samir Mahar (seated), Moustafa Houk (speculation) , Nasser Al-Sheik (there’s no mistaking that mask)

Absent: Mujahid Raba (work accident), Jihad Zeidan (martyred), Kamal Hams (executed as collaborator)

On the other hand, Al Qaida number 10 has opportunity for rapid advancement!