A leading Al Qaeda trainer has been killed in Pakistan in a missile strike by US-led forces in Afghanistan. Abu Suleman al-Jazairi, explosives expert involved in a range of European terrorist networks, was killed in the last few days. 45 years old Al Jazairi, considered director of external operations for Al-Qaeda, killed along with at least 15 others when the house in which he was staying in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal district was hit by a missile fired from a Predator, an American pilotless drone.

The house targeted & destroyed by the drone is believed to belong to a former Afghan Taliban defence minister, Maulvi Obaidullah, members of whose family, including women & children, are thought to have died. The surrounding areas are in the hands of militants linked to the Pakistan Taliban militant group blamed for the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto last year.