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Top Al-Qaeda Bombmaker & Other Senior Al Qaeda Reported Killed in Pakistan Strikes (updated with photos)By Andrew Cochran
ABC News broke the story this afternoon that al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, Midhat Mursi, a.k.a. Midhat Mursi al-Sayyid Umar, a.k.a. Abu Khabab al-Masri, a.k.a. Abu Khabab, was killed in last week's U.S. missile attack in Pakistan. A friend in the media with excellent official sources, as well as CNN's David Ensor, report that US government officials can't confirm the killing but won't dissuade the reports either. If true, this is almost as good as killing al-Zawahri; we had a $5 million reward out for Abu Khabab for his long success in training hundreds of terrorists in Afghanistan (including Richard Reid and Zacharias Moussaoui) and for his planning for chemical WMD attacks. An excellent post last September by Dan Darling on Bill Roggio's "Fourth Rail" site provides details of Abu Khabab's activities, based on Michael Scheuer's book. Bill's new post on the terrorist's reported death includes more good information, and you can see Abu Khabab's bio on the FBI's "Rewards for Justice" site, where the reward information is posted. Khalid Habib, the al Qaeda operations chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Abdul Rehman al Magrabi, a senior operations commander for al Qaeda, also killed in the attack. Here's the video of the ABC News report. Evan Kohlmann sent me photos below of Abu Khabab's former camp in Afghanistan, from the GlobalSecurity.org site, and the Abu Khabab photo is from the "Rewards" site:
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