Via ABC News: U.S. Strike Killed al Qaeda Bomb Maker
ABC News has learned that Pakistani officials now believe that al Qaeda’s master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week’s U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan.Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, was identified by Pakistani authorities as one of four known major al Qaeda leaders present at an apparent terror summit in the village of Damadola early last Friday morning.
Since I was starting to think that we simply blew up some house sans terrorists, this is good news.
Of course, the identity of the fellow is not 100% at this point.
This Mursi fellow was a very unpleasant individual:
He is described by authorities as the man who ran al Qaeda’s infamous Derunta training camp in Afghanistan, where he used dogs and other animals as subjects for experiments with poison and chemicals. His explosives training manual is still regarded as the bible for al Qaeda terrorists around the world.Sphere: Related Content
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