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http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/04/ilyas-kashmiri-killed-in-us-drone-strike.html

“Harkatul Jihad al-Islami confirms Ilyas Kashmiri killedAgencies Yesterday”

PHOTO CAPTION: “This file photo taken on July 11, 2001 shows Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, commander-in-chief of the Kashmiri militant group Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, addressing a press conference in Islamabad. — Photo by AFP”

SNIPPET: “ISLAMABAD: A US drone attack that killed nine militants in South Waziristan targeted and killed top al Qaeda commander and chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI) Ilyas Kashmiri, local officials said Saturday.

Moreover, an HJI spokesman confirmed that Kashmiri had been killed, DawnNews reported.”

SNIPPET: “Pakistani officials said nine militants were killed in the US missile strike on Friday at a compound in the Ghwakhwa area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-allied Taliban despite a sweeping Pakistani offensive in 2009.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2540623/posts?page=27#27

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami/common/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/06/top_al_qaeda_leader_2.php

“Top al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US Predator strike”
By BILL ROGGIO
June 4, 2011

SNIPPET: “A Harkat-ul Jihad Islami spokesman named Abu Hanzla Kashir told Dawn that Kashmiri was killed in the attack. Kashir also threatened to attack the US to avenge Kashmiri’s death.

“We confirm that our Amir (leader) and commander in chief, Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, along with other companions, was martyred in an American drone strike on June 3, 2011, at 11:15 pm,” Kashir told the Pakistani news channel, according to The Telegraph.

“The oppressor US is our only target and, God willing, we will take revenge on the U.S. soon with full force,” Kashir said, according to CNN.

US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said that Kashmiri was indeed a target of the attack, but they could not confirm that he was killed.

“HUJI’s statement is a sure sign we got him, we are pretty confident he is dead but we cannot confirm 100 percent,” one official told The Long War Journal. The area where Kashmiri was killed is under Taliban control.”