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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011802131.html
Pakistanis Say U.S. Airstrike Killed Al-Qaeda Bombmaker Pakistanis Say U.S. Airstrike Killed Al-Qaeda Bombmaker
(Washington Post) Kamran Khan and Griff Witte - A senior al-Qaeda operative and a son-in-law of the group's deputy leader, Ayman Zawahiri, were among those killed in a U.S. airstrike in an area along the Afghan border last week, Pakistani sources said Thursday. At least three al-Qaeda operatives were killed, including Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, a training camp leader and expert in explosives and poisons, on whom the U.S. had posted a $5 million bounty. Also believed killed were Abdul Rahman Maghribi, Zawahiri's son-in-law, who was believed to have been al-Qaeda's chief of propaganda for the region, and Abu Ubayida Misri, a key operative in Afghanistan's Konar province.