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- US officials are confident that Ibrahim al-Asiri, an infamous al-Qaeda bomb-maker and who masterminded a plot to down a commercial airliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009, was killed in a US drone strike last year, according to multiple reports.
- This particular terrorist was described by a former US intelligence official as "probably the most sophisticated terrorist bomb maker on the planet," CBS News reported Monday.
- That same official, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, called his death "the most significant removal of a terrorist from the battlefield since the killing of [Osama] bin Laden."
Ibrahim al-Asiri, a master bomb-maker for al-Qaeda believed to have masterminded a plot to down a commercial airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen last year, US officials confirmed to Fox News and CBS News Monday.
Al-Asiri is said to have made the underwear bomb that a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate on a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit in December 2009. He was also involved in a plot to hide explosives in printer cartridges being shipped to the US.
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