Saleh al-Somali

Saleh al-Somali
Died(2009-12-08)December 8, 2009
NationalitySomali
OccupationAlleged al Qaida operational planner
Known forKilled by a missile strike

Saleh al-Somali, born Abdirizaq Abdi Saleh, was described as being an al-Qaeda leader and the group's head of external operations. He was killed by a missile fired from an unmanned predator drone on December 8, 2009. The missile strike was on a suspect compound in Janikhel village near Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, today a part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Initially the identity of the senior al Qaida leader reported killed was not made public. But on December 11, 2009 ABC News quoted a US security official who said: "There are strong indications that senior al Qaeda operations planner Saleh al-Somali has been killed".



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