Saleh al-Somali
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Saleh al-Somali is described as being an al Qaeda leader.
He was killed by a missile fired from an unmanned predator drone on December 8, 2009.
The missile strike was on a suspect compound in Janikhel village near Pakistan
's Federally Administered Tribal Areas
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Initially the identity of the senior al Qaida leader reported killed was not made public.
But on December 11, 2009 ABC News
quoted a US security official who said: "There are strong indications that senior al Qaeda operations planner Saleh al-Somali has died."
He was killed by a missile fired from an unmanned predator drone on December 8, 2009.
The missile strike was on a suspect compound in Janikhel village near Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
's Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwest of Pakistan, lying between the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the neighboring country of Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seven Agencies and six FRs...
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Initially the identity of the senior al Qaida leader reported killed was not made public.
But on December 11, 2009 ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
quoted a US security official who said: "There are strong indications that senior al Qaeda operations planner Saleh al-Somali has died."