US strikes at leadership meeting in Bajaur
Counterterrorism strike| Event Details | |||
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 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda | |
| Acting Agency | CIA | ||
 | Means | Predator drone missile launch1 | |
| Location | Damadola, Bajaur, Pakistan1 | |
| Time | Jan. 13, 2006 | |
 | Killed | Midhat Mursi (Secondary Target) 1, Abdul Rehman al-Maghribi (Secondary Target) 1, Khalid Habib (Secondary Target) 1 | |
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | On Jan. 13, 2006, what is believed to be one or more Predator drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency fired multiple missiles at a suspected meeting of al-Qaeda leaders in the village of Bajur in northwestern Pakistan.1 | |
| Possible | Intelligence indicated Ayman al-Zawahiri was at the meeting; however, it is now believed he did not attend. As many as a dozen bystanders, including children, were reported killed in the strike.1 | |
| Questionable | Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf claimed five non-Pakistanis were killed in the strikes. Pakistani intelligence officials, a source of sometimes dubious reliability, said the dead included Midhat Mursi, al-Qaeda's top chemical and biological weapons researcher, and Abdul Rehman al-Maghribi, a relative of al-Zawahiri. Mursi, however, remains listed as "wanted" on the U.S. Rewards for Justice web site, suggesting his death has not been confirmed. Initially, Abu Obaidah al-Masri was reported as possilby killed; however, officials targeted him in later strike, so presumably he survived.1,2 | |
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| Sources | |||
| 1'U.S. attack kills al-Qaeda leader's kin.' The Assocated Press, Feb. 13, 2006. | |||
| 2Rewards for Justice web site. | |||
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