The Defense Department released the below information:
The U.S. Department of
Defense has confirmed that a U.S. counter-terrorism airstrike conducted March
19 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, resulted in the death of Qari Yasin, a
well-known al Qaida terrorist leader responsible for the deaths of dozens of innocent
victims, including two American service members.
Yasin, a senior terrorist
figure from Balochistan, Pakistan, had ties to Tehrik-e Taliban and had plotted
multiple al Qaida terror attacks, including the Sept. 20, 2008, bombing on the
Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed dozens of innocent people, among them
U.S. Air Force Maj. Rodolfo I. Rodriguez and Navy Cryptologic Technician Third
Class Petty Officer Matthew J. O’Bryant.
Yasin was also responsible
for the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.
Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed and six members of the
team injured.
"The death of Qari Yasin
is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and deliberately target innocent
people will not escape justice," said Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
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