Pakistan's Al Qaeda chief killed in drone attack

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Re: Pakistan’s Al Qaeda chief killed in drone attack

And we believe that he was alqaedah chief just because they say so?

Most of killings in these drone attacks are civilians , we have to justify these attacks hence every other person killed is basically a top brass commander of Al qaedah. *Wah g Wah
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A little search revealed that Alqaedah chief in pakistan is Some one Moulana Umer Farooq.

@yazdi

Why can’t our own agencies do action against these people. If our agencies don’t clean the mess they have created, somebody else will.. and there will be no justification to cry later..!!!

Pakistan al Qaeda chief killed by US drone: Officials

MIRANSHAH: US missiles on Thursday killed al Qaeda’s chief in Pakistan, one of the Americans’ main targets and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said.
Badr Mansoor, who reputedly sent fighters to Afghanistan and ran a training camp in North Waziristan, was killed in a pre-dawn drone strike on a compound near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials and a member of his group told AFP.
A US drone attack had targeted a militant compound killed four insurgents in North Waziristan, early morning on Thursday, security officials had said.
Two missiles hit the compound located in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, a security official had said.
“A US drone fired two missiles at a compound used by militants in Miranshah and four militants have been killed.”
The incident and death toll were confirmed by intelligence sources.
“Taliban fighters had started hiding here in rented buildings and those killed are believed to be militants,” one official said, requesting anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Officials said the death toll could rise because of damage to buildings next to the one targeted by the drone.
This strike followed a drone attack, earlier, on Wednesday on a compound in Tappi, 10 kilometres (six miles) southeast of Miranshah, which security officials said killed 10 insurgents.
Several militant groups, including the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda, have a presence in Pakistan’s border tribal regions, taking advantage of a porous border with Afghanistan to conduct cross-border attacks, or plot violence elsewhere.
North Waziristan is also an important base for the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, an Afghan militant faction allied with the Taliban.
While the Haqqanis say they no longer need havens in North Waziristan and stay in Afghanistan, they are known to still maintain a presence in the Pakistani border region.