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Al-Qaeda’s number two Atiyah abd al-Rahman has been killed in Pakistan<\/strong>, the United States said on Saturday, claiming another “tremendous” blow to the group following the death of Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n

A senior US official said that Rahman was killed in tribal Waziristan on August 22 after being deeply involved in directing operations for Al-Qaeda.<\/strong> The official did not divulge the exact circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n

Local officials in the tribal region however told AFP last week that a US drone strike on August 22 on a vehicle in North Waziristan killed at least four militants. It was not clear if the two incidents were connected.<\/p>\n

The senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the death of Rahman would be deeply felt by Al-Qaeda because the group’s new leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had relied on him heavily since US Navy Seals killed Osama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rahman’s death represents “a tremendous loss for al Qaeda,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Washington has called Pakistan’s semi-autonomous northwest tribal region the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda, where Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked networks plot attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The death of Rahman represents another success for President Barack Obama’s intensified and often clandestine operations against Al-Qaeda, particularly in the northwestern tribal regions in Pakistan which Washington says is the group’s lair.<\/p>\n

They’re going down one by one!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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