U.S. forces killed 11 al Qaeda operatives —
including a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden — in two airstrikes last
week in Syria, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the
Pentagon, said the second strike, near Idlib on Saturday, killed Abu
Hani al-Masri, described as a longtime terrorist with ties to bin Laden,
al Qaeda's founder, and to Ayman al-Zawahiri, its current leader.
Davis said al-Masri, who is thought to have been
65 years old, oversaw the creation and operation of many al Qaeda
training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and '90s, where he recruited
and trained "thousands of terrorists who subsequently spread throughout
the region and the world."
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