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Al-Qaeda operative killed in Pakistan raid?

Islamabad: Pakistani helicopters destroyed a militant hideout near the Afghan border in a bid to kill an Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative wanted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, officials said on Thursday. But it was unclear if the fugitive was among the seven militants slain. The operation was launched late on Wednesday in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai after the Pakistani military received information that Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah (45) may have been hiding there, two senior counterterrorism officials said. An intelligence official in Miran Shah, the main town in the volatile North Waziristan region that hugs the Afghan border, said Wednesday's raid killed nine persons in all — seven militants, including five non-Pakistanis, as well as two young brothers who lived in the house, one aged 2 years and the other 2 months. — AP

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