Man Who Plotted to Blow Up Planes Gets Blown Up by a Plane

[Matt Molnar]

A British man suspected of planning the Al-Qaeda "airline plot" which was broken up in 2006 is believed to be among four dead in a house hit by an American drone-fired missile in Pakistan. Irony 1 - Al Qaeda 0.

US kills alleged transatlantic airline plot leader, reports say
British Islamist Rashid Rauf said to have been killed by missile attack in north-west Pakistan

* Jason Burke in Islamabad
* guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 22 2008 12.43 GMT

A British man suspected of close links with al-Qaida leaders and involvement in a plot to blow up transatlantic airplanes has reportedly been killed by a United States missile strike in the volatile border regions of Pakistan.
British Islamist Rashid Rauf Rashid Rauf after his court appearance in Pakistan in December 2006. Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images

Rashid Rauf, originally from Birmingham, was said to have died along with at least four other militants with links to al-Qaida in an attack in the restive North Waziristan tribal agency, a key base for hardline extremists, according to local television stations and intelligence officials.

Pakistani intelligence sources in Islamabad said they had intercepted communications between militants after the strike indicating that Rauf was among those killed, but cautioned that no direct evidence of his death had yet been found. Investigations were still continuing, officials said. [Full Article]

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Like they say, karma is a funny thing :borat: