EFL I heard on FOX news that Al-Zawahri had been killed and that Americans had the body for DNA testing. A Google of the news turned up this Article. Salt advised.
March 22, 2004
PAKISTAN intelligence services yesterday interrogated more than 100 fighters arrested in the fiercest battle with al-Qa’ida suspects and their local tribal supporters, amid claims the "high-value target" they were protecting might be a central Asian militant leader. But a US official said the al-Qa’ida No 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, might have been killed in the fighting.
| When this hoedown first started we heard he might have been wounded. |
Military intelligence agencies were questioning Uzbeks, Chechens, Arabs and local Pashtun tribesmen arrested during a fierce four-day assault on al-Qa’ida hideouts in Pakistan’s wild northwest tribal belt on the Afghan frontier... Major General Sultan refused to speculate. "I would not give any kind of assessment on this because already a lot of hype has been created," he said... But there has not been any confirmed sighting of Zawahiri, and there was speculation the Egyptian surgeon might already be dead. According to the unnamed US official, Zawahiri was shot by US special forces while trying to flee. The official said the body was undergoing DNA tests, but an announcement was being delayed in deference to the Pakistanis.
| I also heard the U.S. was denying this, perhaps just because nobody wants to stick his neck out. |
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