MSNBC reports that a top Al Qaeda official was killed in a drone attack in the south Waziristan province of Pakistan:
A high-ranking al-Qaida figure was killed Thursday in an attack by a drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan, U.S. officials told NBC News.
The officials did not identify who was killed, except to say that it was not al-Qaida’s supreme leader, Osama bin Laden. If the report is confirmed, it would be the first time coalition forces had killed a top al-Qaida figure in almost a year.
The officials said the killing was the result of stepped-up operations targeting al-Qaida leaders in recent weeks.
Apparently
CBS has confirmed that it was not Ayman al-Zawahiri either. Although U.S. officials confirm the attack was delivered by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone,
Chattahbox points out that
The news comes a day after the US Air Force confirmed for the first time that it is flying a new stealth unmanned aircraft the RQ-170 Sentinel, known as the ‘Beast of Kandahar,’ drone spotted in photos and still shrouded in secrecy.
Beast of Kandahar. I like it.
No comments:
Post a Comment