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 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject: Still possibility that Laden's #2 was killed... |
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By RIAZ KHAN,
Associated Press Writer
Wed Jan 18, 3:22 AM ET
Pakistani intelligence officials have said the target of the attack was al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, who they said was invited to a dinner celebrating an Islamic holiday in the village but sent aides instead.
U.S. counterterrorism officials, however, have not ruled out that
Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant was killed.
In the first official confirmation by Pakistani authorities that militants were killed, the administration of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal regions bordering
Afghanistan said in a statement that the four or five bodies of "foreign terrorists" were taken away "by their companions."
It did not identify them. But a counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitivity, said several of those killed were believed to be Egyptian.
Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian, has appeared regularly over the Internet and in Arab media to encourage Muslims to attack Americans and U.S. interests worldwide.
On Wednesday, Shah Zaman Khan, director-general of media relations for Pakistan's tribal areas, said the bodies were now probably in "inaccessible mountainous areas" along the rugged, ill-defined border.
The area is a suspected hide-out for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who sought refuge after the U.S-led war that began after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. |
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