WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The Pentagon on Friday confirmed the death of top Al Qaeda leader Faruq al-Qatani in an air strike carried out earlier eastern Afghanistan.
“We can now confirm that the precision strike conducted by the US military on October 23 in Kunar, Afghanistan, resulted in the death of senior al-Qaeda leader Faruq al-Qatani,” the Pentagon Press Secretary, Peter Cook, said.
Al-Qatani was al-Qaeda's emir for eastern Afghanistan and one of the terrorist group's senior plotters of attacks against the . . .
