Al-Qaida’s top operating officer believed to be at target site in Pakistan
By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:28 p.m. ET Jan. 13, 2006
U.S. officials told NBC News on Friday that American airstrikes in Pakistan overnight Thursday were aimed at the No. 2 man in the al-Qaida terror organization — Ayman al-Zawahri.
One official said intelligence indicated a strong possibility that Zawahri was in the Pakistani village at the time of the airstrike, but there is no confirmation that he was killed.
Pakistani officials say U.S. aircraft, apparently CIA Predator drones, fired as many as 10 missiles at the residential compound.