The US Ministry of Defense on Tuesday confirmed that a senior Al Qaeda leader was killed in a US air strike near Sarmada, Syria, last week.
Abu Afghan Al-Masri, an Egyptian who joined Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and later moved to Syria, died on November 18.
“He had ties to terrorist groups operating throughout Southwest Asia, including groups responsible for attacking US and coalition forces in Afghanistan and those plotting to attack the West,” said a correspondent from the White House.
The US has carried out sporadic strikes in the past against Al-Qaeda members who migrated to northwestern Syria from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Earlier this month, US President Barack Obama ordered the Pentagon to deploy more drones and intelligence assets against an Al-Qaeda-linked military group in Syria, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra and now called Jabhat Fatah al-Sham or Front for the Conquest of Syria.
The move highlights Obama’s concern that it is turning parts of Syria into a new base of operations for Al-Qaeda on Europe’s southern boundaries.
During his campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump said he would be even more aggressive in going after militants than Obama.
Well… We’ll just have to wait and see.
Good news for the world, bad for his family, another mothefu@ker bits the dust..