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Just over a week ago, the LA TIMES was reporting:
But now this same senior al-Qaida operative involved in the 2005 London subway and bus bombings and a 2006 plot to blow up commercial airliners over the Atlantic Ocean as well as assisted Danes on plots for terrorism has died in Pakistan's tribal region, U.S. counterterrorism officials said yesterday."If Al Qaeda strikes the West in the coming months, it's likely the mastermind will be a stocky Egyptian explosives expert with two missing fingers.
His alias is Abu Ubaida al Masri. Hardly anyone has heard of him outside a select circle of anti-terrorism officials and Islamic militants.But as chief of external operations for Al Qaeda, investigators say, he has one of the most dangerous -- and endangered -- jobs in international terrorism. "
Al-Qaida planner reportedly has died
from hepatitis.
He was previously thought to have been in hiding and died in an airstrike
and had a job with the lowest life expectancy in international politics."
And in other aviation news...
British Airways has lost the luggage of a passenger who died on a flight from Hong Kong.
His bags are among the estimated 28,000
which went missing when the handling system failed at the £4.3billion terminal.
Many have been sent to Milan in Italy and Memphis in the U.S. to be sorted.
BA loses luggage of passenger who died during flight to Terminal 5
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