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Al Qaida confirms top bomb expert killed in US strike
A top Al Qaida bomb maker was killed along with three other militants in a suspected US strike in Pakistan last week, Al Qaida confirmed on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 16:01 August 3, 2008
Dubai: A top Al Qaida bomb maker was killed along with three other militants in a suspected US strike in Pakistan last week, Al Qaida confirmed on Sunday.
A statement on Islamist websites said Abu Khabab Al Masri, a chemical and biological weapons expert, was killed in an attack on a house in Pakistan's tribal area which borders Afghanistan.
Al Qaida said Masri, who carried a $5 million US bounty, had left behind several students who would avenge his death.
Al Qaida's leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Al Yazid signed the statement which also gave the names of the three others. It said some of their children were killed.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman on Saturday denied a US media report that top Al Qaida member Ayman Al Zawahri had died in the same airstrike.
Masri, a 55-year-old Egyptian chemist, was a top bomb expert.
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