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Zawahiri's kin killed: Musharraf

B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD: Almost a month after the U.S. air strike in the Bajaur tribal agency bordering Afghanistan, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has conceded that five foreign militants were among those killed in the attack.

"Investigations have proved that five foreign terrorists, some of them very important, were also among those killed in the attack. I am not two hundred per cent sure. But I am 95 per cent sure of that," Gen. Musharraf said on Saturday.

Security officials had claimed that among those killed was Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's son-in-law Abdur Rehman al-Maghribi. Gen. Musharraf also said on Saturday that a close relative of al-Zawahiri was among the five militants killed in the raid.

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