Top Osama aide killed by US strike in Libya

July 03, 2015 17:45

A top Tunisian jihadist and associate of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by a US airstrike in Libya last month Seifallah Ben Hassine, listed as a "global terrorist" by the US, was killed mid-June in an airstrike that targeted a top Al Qaeda-linked Islamist, The New York Times reported.

Ben Hassine is believed to have coordinated a string of assassinations, including the killing of famed Afghan anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Masood in 2001.

Tunisian officials also accused the leader of the banned Ansar al-Sharia group of directing the killings of two secular Tunisian politicians in 2013, the paper reported.

He was further suspected of leading an attack on the US Embassy in Tunis in September 2012, days after an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the paper said.

He had been based in Libya since 2013. Tunisian station Radio Mosaique first reported Ben Hassine's death, which the paper said it had confirmed with an official in Washington.

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