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AL-Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri 'may be dead' |
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Saturday, 14 January 2006 |
 AL-Qaeda No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been among victims of a US strike Friday on a Pakistani village which killed 18 people, US ABC television reported today, citing Pakistan military sources.The sources said five of those killed in the raid were "high level Al-Qaeda figures" whose bodies are undergoing forensic tests for identification, ABC reported.They said Osama bin Laden's deputy, who has been known to stay at houses in the village, may have been one of the victims.
But the US Defencce Department denied having conducted operations in the area earlier today.
Zawahiri is a doctor who has become al-Qaeda's most senior spokesman in
videos released in recent months as bin Laden keeps a low profile. He
appeared in a new video released last week.
At least 18 people including women and children died when helicopters
launched missiles on a village in Pakistan's tribal region bordering
Afghanistan, residents said earlier.
The incident was in Mamund, in the Bajur tribal zone of eastern Pakistan.
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