 A close relative of Al Qaeda second-in-command Aymen Al Zawahiri was killed in the last monthÂ’s US attack on three residential compounds in PakistanÂ’s tribal Bajour region, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday.
The relative had “a five-million-dollar bounty on his head,” Musharraf said, without naming the suspect.
| Two of the other guys killed were reported to be Madhat Mursi, the bomb and poison impresario, and Abu Obaidah al Misri, the Kunar province operations chief. |
An official statement quoted Musharraf as saying that he was 95 per cent sure that some foreign militants were also killed in the attack. On January 13, US forces using missiles attacked residential compounds in Damadola village in the Bajour region, killing 18 people. US media reports following the air strike said Egyptian-born Al- Zawahiri had been the target of the attack.
| This was followed by the predictable riots and a small diplomatic brough-ha-ha as the locals loudly demanded compensation for the dear departed women, children, puppies, kittens, baby ducks and fluffy bunnies the heartless Merkins as bumped off. The identities of the deaders leaked pretty early, without any official Pak confirmation. Now that the dust has settled, Perv's admitting to one of them. If he happens to be backed into a political corner down the road and needs some American good will, he'll "discover" proof of the demise of Madhat and Abu Obie. |
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