(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – The al Qaeda bomb master behind a 2009 attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day may have been killed, according to a United Nations (UN) team that tracks terrorist groups.
The UN report says that Ibrahim al-Asiri, long regarded as one of the most dangerous terrorist operatives in circulation, may have been killed in Yemen last year.
The UN report gave no indication of how al-Asiri died or who may have been responsible and is the only public indication of his possible death. But multiple United Sates (US) Officials in different parts of the Government tell CNN they are weighing evidence that al-Asiri is dead.
