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| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, November 18, 2001 |
Al-Aaida Leader Atef Killed in U.S. Bombing: Taliban |
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Mohammad Atef, a terrorist leader from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network was killed along with seven other al-Qaida members three days ago in an attack outside Kabul by the U.S.-led coalition, a local press report quoted Taliban sources as saying on Saturday.
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Mohammad Atef, a terrorist leader from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network was killed along with seven other al-Qaida members three days ago in an attack outside Kabul by the U.S.-led coalition, a local press report quoted Taliban sources as saying on Saturday.
Al-Qaida chief bin Laden, the most wanted man by the United States, is still alive, the sources said. However, they declined to identify the seven al-Qaida members who were killed with Atef.
Atef is suspected of helping plan terror attacks on September 11 in the United States, and is believed to have directly planned the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, according to a U.S. indictment that charged him with murder.
And he is accused of helping plan a 1993 helicopter shootdown in Somalia that killed 18 U.S. soldiers.
Atef was a close confidant who was often seen at bin Laden's left or right hand in photographs and videotapes taken in Afghanistan in the last three years.
Atef also was related to bin Laden by marriage as Atef's daughter wed bin Laden's son in January this year.
Atef was born in 1944 in Minoufia, about 88 kilometers north of Cairo. Some people said that Atef joined the Egyptian police force while others say he served two years of obligatory service in the Egyptian army.
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