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Still on October 22 in the Americas, the US Army reported its attack to the death on the group’s leader in Syria, identified as Abdul Hamid al-Matar. The announcement was made in writing by Army Major John Rigsbee, detailing that his death occurred during an aerial bombardment with drones.
This October 22, during the night in the Americas, Army Major John Rigsbee, spokesman for the United States Central Command, affirmed that his country killed in an aerial bombardment with drones the leader of Al-Qaeda in Syria, whom he identified like Abdul Hamid al-Matar.
The US Army, through Rigsbee, claimed to have eliminated Al-Matar, from an offensive carried out with an MQ-9 type unmanned aerial vehicle (a drone), two days after one of its posts in southern Syria.
Major Rigsbee did not specify if the drone attack was carried out in retaliation and added that there were no indications of civilian casualties, as there were in a similar action in Kabul (Afghanistan) and that the nation had to finally admit to the death “by mistake” of ten civilians.
“The removal of this Al-Qaeda leader will disrupt the terrorist organization’s ability to continue to plot and carry out global attacks that threaten US citizens, our partners and innocent civilians,” the US Army Major stated in writing.
[AMPLÍA] “A US airstrike in northwestern Syria killed Al Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar today (Friday),” Major John Rigsbee, a spokesman for the US Central Command, said in a statement. #AFP pic.twitter.com/CJzw9JPn0f
– Agence France-Presse (@AFPespanol) October 23, 2021
According to the Pentagon, Al-Qaeda is using Syrian territory as a “refuge” to plan terrorist operations and reestablish control of the armed group.
In September, the United States Central Command claimed to have killed another senior Al-Qaeda leader, whom it did not identify, but which also occurred in an aerial bombardment in the northwest of the country.
With Reuters and EFE
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