Asiri has achieved a terrorist breakthrough designing bombs that can pass undetected through airport security Photo: Reuters
Drone Strike Reportedly Wounds Al Qaeda Master Bomb Maker -- Washington Free Beacon
Bomb maker reportedly behind ‘Underwear Bombing’ plot in 2010
A Saudi national known to be a key al Qaeda bomb maker was wounded during a U.S.-led drone strike in Yemen, according to a Yemeni news report.
Ibrahim al Asiri, the bomb maker, was targeted during a missile strike launched from a U.S.-operated armed drone in southern Yemen that killed two other al Qaeda terrorists, the online Yemeni news outlet Al Watan reported Sunday.
A U.S. official had no public comment but urged caution regarding claims that al Asiri was dead.
The drone attack took place in Yemen’s southernmost Lahij Governorate that borders the Gulf of Aden. Covert, U.S. military-operated drones carried out the strike. The United States operates a drone base located in southern Saudi Arabia.
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Update: Yemen's hunt for master bomber Ibrahim al-Asiri -- The Telegraph
My Comment: Time calls him The World's Most Dangerous Terrorist .... and for good reason. Al Qaeda is saying nothing about his injuries .... but his demise would be a good thing.
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