Associate Of Al-Qaeda Deputy Leader Believed Killed
A Pakistani soldier on patrol on the site of a marketplace destroyed in fighting with neo-Taliban forces in North Waziristan (file photo) (epa)
The man was known by militants as Abu Marwan al-Suri. Thought to be a Saudi national, he was killed near Pakistan's Bajur tribal region -- and close to the Afghan border -- during a battle with Pakistani security officers.
Reuters quotes a senior security official in the Northwest Frontier Province as saying that the man is believed to have distributed funds in Pakistan and Afghanistan sent from Iraq by the local Al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
He also was thought to have organized attacks on U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan.
(AP, Reuters)