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Two Al Qaeda suspects believed killed in Pakistan

 

Published 1/9/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

Two men wanted in the deadly attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 were killed in a U.S. strike in the tribal region, an official says. One of the men was a suspect in the Islamabad hotel blast. > Two senior Al Qaeda operatives were killed in a CIA missile strike on New Year's Day in Pakistan, including a suspect in the bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel in September, a senior U.S. counter-terrorism official said Thursday. (link)

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