Pentagon: 11 al Qaeda terrorists killed in airstrikes near Idlib, Syria
By Thomas Joscelyn | February 8, 2017 | tjoscelyn@gmail.com | @thomasjoscelyn
The Defense Department announced today that 11 al Qaeda terrorists were killed in a pair of airstrikes near Idlib, Syria earlier this month. Ten al Qaeda men were reportedly killed on Feb. 3, when the US struck a building they were using as a “meeting place.”
On the following day, Feb. 4, a jihadi known as Abu Hani al Masri (seen on the right) perished in a second airstrike. The Pentagon says Abu Hani served al Qaeda for decades.
Abu Hani was “a legacy al Qaeda terrorist with ties to the group’s senior leaders, including Ayman al Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden,” according to a statement by Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis. During the 1980s and 1990s, Abu Hani “oversaw the creation and operation of many al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan,” where “he recruited, indoctrinated, trained and equipped thousands of terrorists who subsequently spread throughout the region and the world.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/02/pentagon-11-al-qaeda-terrorists-killed-in-airstrikes-near-idlib-syria.php
