Bill Roggio reports: Kashmiri is one of the most dangerous al Qaeda leaders. [...] He is suspected of planning and leading some of the terror group’s most sophisticated assaults in the Afghan-Pakistan theater.
Al Qaeda has confirmed that the US killed the leader of the Lashkar al Zil, or the Shadow Army, the terror group’s military organization along the Afghan and Pakistani border.
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, said that Abdullah Said al Libi was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan. Yazid confirmed that Al Libi was killed in a tape praising the suicide attack on the CIA base in Khost. Yazid also confirmed that Saleh al Somali, al Qaeda’s former external operations chief, was also killed in a US attack.
The suicide attack, which killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence official, was designed to “avenge” the death of al Libi, Somali, and former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, Yazid said, according to a translation of his statement received by The Long War Journal.
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