... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur...
of North
Wazoo near the Afghan border on Sunday, killing six suspected Lions of Islam and wounding two others.Sources said missiles were fired in Kher Tangi area. A vehicle was also destroyed in the attack that occurred at around 6am.
Names and nationalities of the dead and the maimed could not be ascertained.
Agencies add: Some officials claimed that a senior member of Al Qaeda was among the dead. They identified him as Omar Farooq and said he operated in Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The Taliban sources said that Farooq, 38, belonged to Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
where he worked as a religious teacher before joining Al Qaeda after the 2001 attack on New York.
Farooq was close to Al Qaeda leaders the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as
Mister Bones...
and Ayman al
Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
and was a key figure in running the group's operations and finances in Pakistain and Afghanistan, where he also helped direct attacks against NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
troops, they said.
One Pak official, requesting anonymity, said Farooq, also called Ustad Farooq, was in charge of Al Qaeda's regional media department.
"He is the first Pak to be appointed to a senior-level position in Al Qaeda," a military official said.
He said the compound belonged to loyalists of krazed killer `commander' Hafiz Gul Bahadur
...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state..
, who leads his own faction in the area.
"There is [suspicion] that an important `commander' was within the compound when missiles struck but this is yet to be verified," one intelligence official said on condition of anonymity.
The drone attack came a day after Pak troops killed a major Al Qaeda leader, Adnan el Shukrijumah.