US names 'senior Qaeda bombmaker' for sanctions
June 07, 2013 00:24
The US Treasury has identified a Libyan electronics and explosives specialist as a top bomb maker for Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and singled him out for anti-terror sanctions.
The Treasury yesterday said Abd al-Hamid al-Masli, also known as Hamza al-Darnawi, runs a Qaeda workshop in Pakistan that provides improvised explosive devices and components for Qaeda to be used in Afghanistan.
The 37-year-old Libyan-born Masli works in Waziristan on Pakistan's northwest border, where he also has instructed Qaeda recruits on making detonators.