December 28, 2015
THEY HAVE TO GET LUCKY EVERY DAY:
North African al-Qaeda says top figure killed in ambush (AP, December 28, 2015)
A leading figure of the North African affiliate of al-Qaeda has been killed in an ambush by Algerian soldiers, one of 109 terrorists killed by Algerian security forces in 2015, the country's Defense Ministry said Sunday.Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, said that Abu al-Hassan Rachid al-Bulaydi, head of the Sharia Committee, was killed on Friday "as a result of an insidious ambush by the apostates," according to a statement translated by the SITE Intelligence Group. The statement said he was killed in the Tizi Ouzou region east of Algiers.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 28, 2015 12:45 PM