The Pentagon confirmed the elimination of the Afghanistan field commander of “al-Qaeda”
WASHINGTON, March 26. /Offset. TASS Boris Makarov/. The field commander of “al-Qaeda” (banned in Russia — approx. TASS) Qari Yasin was eliminated as a result of an American airstrike in Afghanistan. This was reported on Saturday the press service of the Ministry of defense.
“The Ministry of defense confirmed that an air strike committed on March 19 in the province of Paktika, was destroyed by Qari Yasin, an influential terrorist “al-Qaeda”, responsible for the deaths of dozens of innocent people, including two American soldiers,” — said in a press release.
“The death of Yassin — a proof that the terrorists who defame Islam and elect as their targets of innocent people, not hide from justice,” said defence Minister James Mattis, as quoted by the press service of the Pentagon.
As said, the US war Department, Yasin “responsible for the attack in 2009 on the bus, which was traveling cricket team of Sri Lanka”. “Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed as a result of this outing, six team members were injured”, — reminded in the Pentagon.
As previously reported, Doon, Yasin was one of the influential field commanders of the terrorist group “al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent”. In the Pakistani province of Punjab, which he came from was behind the terrorist’s head a reward of 5 million Pakistani rupees ($50 million). Yasin, moreover, suspected of involvement in a number of high profile terrorist attacks, including a failed assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf and attacks on the headquarters of Pakistan army in Rawalpindi.