Four People Killed Including anAl-Qaida Leader in US Missile Strike

December 9, 2012

Published in Urdu Point
(Pakistan) on 10 December 2012
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Translated from by Kashif Bhatti. Edited by Kathleen Weinberger.

Fourteen kilometers from North Waziristan’s capital in a village called Tibby a U.S. missile was fired on a house resulting in the death of four individuals, including an important commander of al-Qaida. According to a foreign reporting agency, four missiles were fired on a house and a car located on Ghulam Khan Road, causing a huge fire. The reporting agency claimed that according to the military intelligence officers, al-Qaida’s important commander Mohammed Ahmed Al Masur and two Arabs were killed. According to an intelligence source, four drones were spotted in the air. The house and the car were completely destroyed. In a similar drone attack in North Waziristan, al-Qaida’s second in command Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman also known as Sheikh Abu Zaid AlKuwaiti was also killed on Thursday. A British news agency has confirmed the death of Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman.

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