Afghanistan Kills Al Qaeda's 2nd Leader Abu Muhsin al-Masri

Afghan security forces killed, late on Saturday, Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a prominent leader in al-Qaeda terrorist organization, who was on the FBI’s most-wanted list.

The National Directorate of Security in Afghanistan stated that its forces had killed Al-Masri in a special operation in Ghazni province, east of the country, adding that he was the supreme leader of the organization in the Indian subcontinent.

“As a result of NDS special force unit operation in Ghazni province an al-Qaida key member for Indian subcontinent, Abu Muhsen Almisry were killed,” National Directorate of Security (NDS) announced on Twitter yesterday.

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Al-Masri has been charged in the United States with having provided a foreign terrorist organization with material support and resources, as well as planning to kill US nationals.

He sometimes went by the name Hossam Abdel Raouf, according to the FBI.

It is 19 years this month since the US invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the 11 September attacks in order to topple the rule of the Taliban, which harbored al-Qaeda militants who carried out attacks against the United States on the eleventh of September 2001.