Via BBC -
Al-Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan and another top aide are believed to have been killed, US sources say.
Usama al-Kini and his lieutenant, Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, were both killed in recent days, US counter-terrorism officials said.
Usama al-Kini is believed to be behind last year's deadly bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad.
Fifty-five people were killed when a truck packed with explosives rammed the hotel in September 2008.
Both al-Qaeda suspects died in South Waziristan, on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, an unidentified US counter-terrorism official told Reuters news agency.
"These deaths are a significant near-term degradation of al-Qaeda's leadership," he added.
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According to FOX News, the two were killed in a CIA missile strike on New Years Day.
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (aka Usama al-Kini) speaks Arabic, Swahili and English.
Both men have been on the FBI's most-wanted list for ties to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.
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