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Al-Qaeda's #2 targeted leader killed in Afghanistan . April 26th, 2011 5:35 pm ET Jim Kouri <http://www.examiner.com/public-safety-in-national/jim-kouri> U.S. military source confirmed to the Public Safety Examiner today that an April 13, 2011 U.S air strike in Kunar province killed the Number Two targeted al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan. Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani, a top al-Qaeda leader, was a Saudi Arabian national who operated primarily from Kunar and frequently traveled between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the military source confirmed. Abdul Ghani directed al-Qaeda operations in Kunar, including recruiting, training and employing fighters, obtaining weapons and equipment, organizing finances and planning attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, officials previously reported.. Numerous other insurgents, including Waqas, another al-Qaeda commander, also were killed in the deadly air strike. Abdul Ghani was responsible for the coordination of numerous high-profile attacks. On the morning of his death, officials said, he reportedly directed a suicide attack that killed a tribal elder and nine other Afghan civilians. Throughout late 2010 and early this year, Abdul Ghani employed his network of insurgents against security force outposts throughout the province, including a December attack on a coalition forward operating base and two February attacks against an Afghan security force outpost. He commonly instructed subordinate leaders to kidnap foreigners traveling between Asmar and Asadabad, and he was responsible for directing suicide-bomb attacks targeting U.S. government officials, international officials said, regularly circulating throughout Kunar, establishing insurgent camps and training sites, and teaching insurgents how to build and use improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. He was also a key financial conduit between Pakistan-based leaders and insurgent operatives in Afghanistan, streamlining control of assets and providing funding to insurgent fighters for weapons, explosives and equipment. Abdul Ghani had been the focus of coalition force efforts since at least 2007, and was meeting with Waqas at the time of his death, officials said, noting that the two insurgents frequently worked together in coordinating attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
