UK militant 'killed in Pakistan'

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Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 10:09 GMT,
Saturday, 22 November 2008

UK militant 'killed in Pakistan'

A fugitive British militant linked to an alleged
UK plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic
airliners has been killed in Pakistan, reports say.

Pakistani media said Rashid Rauf, born in Birmingham,
was killed in a US air strike in North Waziristan,
a haven for militants and the Taleban.

Mr Rauf, on the run after escaping from a Pakistani
jail, was alleged to have helped the group planning
the attacks.

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Several Pakistani TV channels reported that Mr Rauf
was one of five people killed on Saturday by a
presumed US attack in the country's remote north-
western region.

Unnamed Pakistani intelligence sources said that a
wanted Egyptian militant, Abu Zubair al-Masri, was
among the others killed.

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