Al Qaeda has announced a former Egyptian Special Forces officer as interim leader following the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.
In a brief news flash, the Arab satellite channel said Saif al-Adel was named interim leader and Mustafa alYemeni, whose surname hints he is from Yemen, would direct operations.
CNN and Pakistan’s The News newspaper have corroborated the report.
US prosecutors say Adel is one of al Qaeda’s leading military commanders and helped plan the bomb attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
They also say he set up al Qaeda training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan in the 1990s.
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