U.S. Airstrikes Kill Top Al Qaeda Figure, 10 Others in Syria, Pentagon Says

11 little al Qaeda terrorists were jumping on the bed. BOOM they went by a US airstrike. Ok I was never good at poetry – PB/TK

U.S. Airstrikes Kill Top Al Qaeda Figure, 10 Others in Syria, Pentagon Says

by Alex Johnson Feb 8 2017, 9:29 pm ET

U.S. forces killed 11 al Qaeda operatives — including a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden — in two airstrikes last week in Syria, the Defense Department said Wednesday.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said the second strike, near Idlib on Saturday, killed Abu Hani al-Masri, described as a longtime terrorist with ties to bin Laden, al Qaeda’s founder, and to Ayman al-Zawahiri, its current leader.

Davis said al-Masri, who is thought to have been 65 years old, oversaw the creation and operation of many al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and ’90s, where he recruited and trained “thousands of terrorists who subsequently spread throughout the region and the world.”

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