ISLAMABAD: An Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative described by the United States as the terror network’s propaganda chief was killed in a missile strike in Pakistan.
Abu Jihad Al-Masri was among several rebels killed when two missiles fired by a suspected US spy drone hit a truck in North Waziristan on Friday night.
The US had offered $1 million for the death or capture of Al-Masri, who appeared in an anti-Western video introduced by Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
“The strike was aimed at a vehicle carrying Abu Jihad and two others. The target was successfully hit and all three people were killed,” a senior Pakistani official told news agencies. His death came in one of two separate missile attacks in the tribal belt on Friday, the latest in a series of 18 strikes in the past three months that have raised tensions between Washington and Islamabad.
