(Previous Incident Code: Ob14 )

An attack on a car killed al Qaeda planner Abu Sulayman al-Jazairi and up to nine others, in alleged US led airstrikes, local media reported.

It was previously reported that Abu Sulayman al-Jazairi was killed in B16 in 2008.

Though according to internal documents collected by the local political administration, only a local was killed in the attack. A nearby house was badly damaged, with some ambiguity about those killed. A number of news agencies reported casualties simply as ‘people’, whilst AFP cited an official as saying that the deceased were ‘mostly Taliban militants.’

The News reported, “There were conflicting reports about the identity of those killed in the attack. The local elders claimed that those killed and injured in the attack were local people but some independent sources said the victims were suspected militants associated with a local extremist group.”