Al-Qaida’s Abu Ubaida al-Masri
Posted: Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 9:48 amWASHINGTON – A senior al-Qaida operative involved in the 2005 London subway and bus bombings and a 2006 plot to blow up commercial airliners over the Atlantic Ocean has died in Pakistan’s tribal region, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.
The militant, an Egyptian who used the nom de guerre Abu Ubaida al-Masri, succumbed to hepatitis, they said. …
Al-Masri’s death undercuts Pakistan’s rejection of U.S. claims that al-Qaida’s leadership has been directing terrorist plots from inside the border region’s safe havens of soaring mountains and rugged valleys. … Read full story
