Looks like someone is passing accurate information to US,probably a mole deep within Al-Qaeda.
Ilyas Kashmiri, dubbed as the new Osama bin Laden, was one of the most wanted men for Indian security agencies for his role in a number of terror strikes in the country including the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Kashmiri first shot to infamy when in 1994, he along with Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Al Qaeda operative Omar Sheikh, involved in the killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl, kidnapped four foreign tourists and demanded the release of Maulana Masood Azhar, founder of JeM.
A top Al Qaeda commander and possible replacement for Osama Bin Laden has been killed in an American drone-fired missile strike in Pakistan.
Ilyas Kashmiri’s apparent death is another blow to Al Qaeda just over a month after Bin Laden was killed by American commandos in a northwest Pakistani army town.
Described by U.S. officials as Al Qaeda’s military operations chief in Pakistan, the 47-year-old Pakistani was one of five most-wanted militant leaders in the country.
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