Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Al-Qa'ida planner linked to UK plots 'is dead'

From the Independent:
Senior al-Qa'ida planner Obaidah al Masri, considered a key suspect in the 2005 London subway and underground bombings and a foiled 2006 plot to blow up commercial airliners, is believed to have died, a US official said today.
"The sense is that he is dead," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. McClatchy newspapers reported that Masri died of hepatitis in Pakistan. The official said Masri appeared to have died of natural causes.
"He was a major operational figure," the US official said of al Masri, a pseudonym
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