The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that a U.S. counter-terrorism airstrike conducted March 19 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, resulted in the death of Qari Yasin, a well-known al Qaeda terrorist leader responsible for the deaths of dozens of innocent victims, including two American service members. Yasin was also responsible for the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. According to The Nation, he had worked for Amjad Farooqi, the Pakistani terrorist who engineered two assassination attempts against Musharraf in Dec. 2003 at the behest of al Qaeda leader Abu Faraj al Libi. The Long War Journal reports that Farooqi is suspected of involvement in other terror attacks as well. In Dec. 2013, the Pakistani government listed Yasin as the tenth most wanted terrorist in the country, according to Long War Journal.

Source: Fox News March 26, 2017 01:33 UTC