[ALMASDARNEWS] Kattab al-Qahtani, an associate of the late Osama bin Laden... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
and a veteran al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in a dronezap with eight others in Syria.
Qahtani, who fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan alongside the architect of the 9/11 attacks, was killed as he travelled through north-west Syria in a convoy with a Syrian al- Qaeda commander and a holy warrior belonging to the Turkistan Islamic Party, a faction of Chinese jihadis.
The jihadi stalwart, originally from the Arabian peninsula, was killed on 1 January in a wave of
With its explosive expansion across Syria and later Iraq in 2014 the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
, formerly linked to al-Qaeda, eclipsed the older group. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
Syria has one of the largest and most active concentrations of al-Qaeda gunnies in the world.
The impetus behind the increased targeting of al-Qaeda operatives is not immediately clear. For years Washington has targeted the Lion of Islam group and particularly its internal Khorasan structure which plans attacks against the West and its interests abroad.