Blast ‘kills al-Qaeda commander’
From the BBC. Pakistan says a top al-Qaeda commander has been killed in the country’s tribal belt along the Afghan border.
Egyptian-born Abu Hamza Rabia, described as al-Qaeda’s operational commander, was among five militants killed in a blast in North Waziristan.MSNBC reports that bringing Hamza Rabia to justice was a CIA operation
Local residents said that the men were killed by an unknown number of missiles fired by an unmanned Predator aircraft. The witnesses said that missile remnants bearing U.S. markings remain in the area. They also said they had heard six explosions, but it is uncertain how many of these were the result of missile attacks and how many may have been the result of the missiles detonating explosives inside the safehouse.Good stuff.
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