I'm looking for a name... it looks like we thought he was killed in airstrikes earlier this year (perhaps this is another son in law):
Zawahri tape taunts Bush and BlairJanuary 31, 2006
In his first appearance since being targeted by a US air strike in Pakistan, he said the wives of servicemen killed or injured in the Iraq war should blame the president and the prime minister.
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There are conflicting reports over the possible identities of the four al-Qaida members believed to have been killed in the Pakistan air strike.
Intelligence officials said they could have included Zawahri's son-in-law and an Egyptian bomb-maker on the US most wanted list.
More...This is who was claimed killed in the January strike:
Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi
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It was in the early hours of Jan. 13, following a dinner celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Adha, that Hellfire missiles rained down on a hut in Damadola, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas near the border with Afghanistan. Though al-Zawahiri apparently was not present at the time of the attack, the Pakistani government later revealed that four senior al Qaeda members -- identified as Abdul al-Maghribi, Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, Khalid Habib and Abu Obaidah al-Masri -- were killed, along with several villagers.
The identities of these four men, and the role they apparently played within al Qaeda, is key:
- Al-Maghribi: Believed to be al-Zawahiri's son-in-law and to be involved in al Qaeda's media relations operations.
- Al-Sayid Umar: Also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri. A leading al Qaeda bomb-maker and instructor, who is believed to have trained suicide operatives for several anti-U.S. strikes -- including the attack against the USS Cole in October 2000.
- Habib: Reportedly al Qaeda's operations chief in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Believed to have helped plan assassination attempts against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Close ties to Abu Farj al-Libi, who was arrested in Pakistan in May 2005.
- Al-Masri: An Egyptian, believed to be in charge of planning attacks against coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan.
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