US Special Forces Kill Al-Qaeda Chief Who Talked His Brother Into Putting a Bomb Up His Tush

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Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri was a wanted Saudi militant who US counter-terrorism officials have accused of making the bombs used in a string of high-profile operations by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) since mid-2009. (BBC)

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In 2009 he talked his little brother into putting a bomb up his butt in a Saudi assassination attempt.

US Special Forces killed Al-Qaeda chief bombmaker Ibrahim Al-Asiri.
The Daily Mail reported:

Al Qaeda’s chief bombmaker is believed to have been killed in an ambush by U.S- backed special forces in Yemen.

A 4×4 vehicle, believed to be carrying Ibrahim al-Asiri, 32, mastermind of the ‘underwear bomb plot’, was engaged in a gun battle with special forces, dropped in by helicopter.

Witnesses have described seeing soldiers take up position in the road, waiting for the vehicle to pass before opening fire.

Those inside managed to shoot back, but all inside were reportedly killed as their car was pelted with bullets, The Times reports.

Troops took sniffer dogs with them as they identified those inside and later confirmed one was a ‘high value militant’. If al -Asiri is confirmed as among the dead, he would be the most senior al Qaeda member to be killed since Osama bin Laden in May 2011.

Al-Asiri is believed to be behind a range of explosive devices including pant bombs and liquid explosive implants which contain no metal parts making them virtually undetectable.

He was said to be the mastermind of the Christmas Day bomb plot, when a Nigerian man attempted unsuccessfully to detonate a device aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

On Saturday and Sunday, several air strikes – thought to be carried out chiefly by U.S. drones – were launched on central and southern provinces of Yemen.

Ibrahim al-Asiri reportedly built the device his younger brother hid in his bottom in an assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia’s deputy interior minister in August 2009.

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