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18:40 Mecca time, 15:40 GMT
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Al-Qaeda's chemical 'expert' dead
Al-Masri is believed to have died on July 28 in a suspected US missile strike
[AP]
Abu Khabab al-Masri, described as al-Qaeda's chemical and biological weapons
expert, has been killed with three other fighters in a suspected US bombing in
Pakistan's border region last week.
Al-Masri, who carried a $5m bounty on his head, had been earlier identified as
the likely target of the attack on a house in Pakistan's South Waziristan
region, a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, according to Pakistani officials.
An al-Qaeda statement posted on a variety of websites on Sunday said al-Masri,
referred to as the chemical "expert", had left behind him a generation of
students who would avenge his killing.
The statement, signed by al-Qaeda's leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu
al-Yazid, named three other fighters killed alongside al-Masri on July 28. It
said some of their children also died.
Abdel Bari al-Atwan, editor-in-chief of al-Quds Al Arabi newspaper, said
al-Masri "represented the old guard of al-Qaeda, so it is going to be very
difficult to replace him".
"This was a huge success for the Americans in their pursuit of al-Qaeda
leaders," he said.
"Al-Qaeda usually replace these people in this situations, but actually, they
won't have the people with the determination and expertise of this man.
"He managed to experiment a lot with chemical and biological weapons in the
Tora Bora area.
"Maybe he has disciples, but there's no one with his skills. He knows the
ideology of al-Qaeda very well and I don't believe he will be easily replaced
by other people."
Senior bomb maker
Al-Masri, a 55-year-old Egyptian chemist, was regarded as one of the group's
senior bomb makers.
The statement said he had left behind him a generation of so-called students
who would avenge his killing.
On Saturday, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman denied a US media report that Ayman
al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, had been wounded or killed in what was
believed to be the same US missile strike that killed Masri.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Kabul, said: "Afghanistan is seeing
the worst violence since the Taliban was ousted in 2001.
"The killing of Masri also comes at a time when there have been increasing
reports that a number of al-Qaeda fighters are now infiltrating into
Afghanistan and working here alongside the Taliban."
Ahmed Rashid, the Pakistani journalist and author, told Al Jazeera: "Masri has
left behind a new generation of people that he did train."
"It is quite possible that his death could spark retaliation outside the region
... inside the region, in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, we are seeing an all-out
offensive."
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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