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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Pakistan names 3 slain al-Qaida

4 terror-group members believed killed in missile raid � no bodies recovered

Pakistani intelligence sources have identified three of four al-Qaeda members believed to have been killed by a US airstrike last week, though they have yet to recover the bodies.

One of the dead was said to be Abdul Rehman Al-Misri al Maghribi, a son-in-law of al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri.

Another was Midhat Mursi al Sayid Omer, 52, an expert in explosives and poisons who carried a $US5 million ($A6.7 million) reward on his head.

The third man named was Abu Obaidah al Misri, al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province.

Mursi was one of three known al-Qaeda leaders present at a meeting in the village of Damadola that was targeted in a missile attack late last Thursday or early Friday, ABC News said.

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