.Qaeda militant behind deadliest Iraq attack killed: US
BAGHDAD (AFP) — A US air strike killed the Al-Qaeda militant who masterminded Iraq's deadliest bombings which killed more than 400 people on August 14, targeting the Yazidi sect, a US military spokesman said on Sunday.
"On September 3, a coalition air strike killed the terrorist responsible for the planning and conducting of the horrific attack against the Yazidis in northern Iraq on August 14," Rear Admiral Mark Fox told reporters.
Abu Mohammed al-Afri, also known as Abu Jassam, was killed in the airstrike 70 miles (115 miles) southwest of the northern city of Mosul, Fox said.
Fox said Abu Jassam was an associate of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the local affiliate of Osama bin Laden's global jihadist group.
"Abu Jassam is no longer a threat to the Iraqi people," he added.
Entire families were wiped out after suicide bombers blew up four lorries packed with explosives on August 14 in two villages inhabited by the ancient Yazidi religious sect in the northern province of Nineveh.
The bombers struck the villages of Qataniyah and Adnaniyah, razing them completely, in the deadliest attacks anywhere in the world since the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
AFP
"On September 3, a coalition air strike killed the terrorist responsible for the planning and conducting of the horrific attack against the Yazidis in northern Iraq on August 14," Rear Admiral Mark Fox told reporters.
Abu Mohammed al-Afri, also known as Abu Jassam, was killed in the airstrike 70 miles (115 miles) southwest of the northern city of Mosul, Fox said.
Fox said Abu Jassam was an associate of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the local affiliate of Osama bin Laden's global jihadist group.
"Abu Jassam is no longer a threat to the Iraqi people," he added.
Entire families were wiped out after suicide bombers blew up four lorries packed with explosives on August 14 in two villages inhabited by the ancient Yazidi religious sect in the northern province of Nineveh.
The bombers struck the villages of Qataniyah and Adnaniyah, razing them completely, in the deadliest attacks anywhere in the world since the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
AFP
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