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   From: kill.al.qaeda@disney.com   
      
   The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that a U.S. counter-   
   terrorism airstrike conducted March 19 in Paktika Province,   
   Afghanistan, resulted in the death of Qari Yasin, a well-known   
   al Qaeda terrorist leader responsible for the deaths of dozens   
   of innocent victims, including two American service members.   
      
   Yasin, a senior terrorist figure from Balochistan, Pakistan, had   
   ties to Tehrik-e Taliban and had plotted multiple al Qaeda   
   terror attacks, including the Sept. 20, 2008, bombing on the   
   Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed dozens of innocent   
   people, among them U.S. Air Force Maj. Rodolfo I. Rodriguez and   
   Navy Cryptologic Technician Third Class Petty Officer Matthew J.   
   O’Bryant.   
      
   Yasin was also responsible for the 2009 attack on a bus carrying   
   the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. Six Pakistani policemen   
   and two civilians were killed and six members of the team   
   injured.   
      
   "The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame   
   Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape   
   justice," said Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.   
      
   The Long War Journal reports that Mohammad Khurasani, the   
   Pakistani Taliban spokesman, describes Yasin as “as one of the   
   greatest trainers of explosives and electronics in the fields of   
   jihad.” Yasin’s “students” are “still…performing their duties in   
   the field of jihad relating to such sectors of jihad,” meaning   
   they are manufacturing bombs, according to the Long War Journal.   
      
   Yasin has decades of experience with jihadist factions operating   
   in Pakistan and Afghanistan. According to The Nation, he had   
   worked for Amjad Farooqi, the Pakistani terrorist who engineered   
   two assassination attempts against Musharraf in Dec. 2003 at the   
   behest of al Qaeda leader Abu Faraj al Libi. The Long War   
   Journal reports that Farooqi is suspected of involvement in   
   other terror attacks as well. Farooqi was a member of the Sipah-   
   e-Sahaba Pakistan, the Harkat-ul-Ansar and its successor – the   
   Harakat-ul-Mujahideen – as well as Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami   
   and Jaish-e-Mohammed.   
      
   The US has been hunting Yasin for several years. In Dec. 2013,   
   the Pakistani government listed Yasin as the tenth most wanted   
   terrorist in the country, according to Long War Journal.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03/25/us-airstrike-kills-high-   
   profile-terrorist-leader.html   
         
      
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