Top Al Qaeda bomb maker did NOT die in drone strike, claim Yemenis after body search

Associated Press
October 3, 2011

Al Qaeda’s top bomb maker in Yemen did not die in a drone strike on a convoy, a top Yemeni official said today, dashing American hopes that the attack might have killed a trio of top terrorists.

The U.S. drone strike on Friday killed U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and an American propagandist, Samir Khan, who published a slick English-language web magazine that spouted al Qaeda’s anti-Western ideology.

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This article was posted: Monday, October 3, 2011 at 11:12 am

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