Friday, Jan. 09, 2009
These deaths are a significant near-term degradation of al-Qaeda's leadership.
- A U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIAL,
- after two al-Qaeda leaders, Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan and Usama al-Kini, were reportedly killed. The two men were Kenyans; one of them allegedly masterminded last year's bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad