Missile 'kills Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader' in Pakistan

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Source: BBC

The head of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was killed by a US drone air strike in North Waziristan on 24 February, the BBC has learned.

Qari Mohammad Zafar is believed to have led the Sunni Muslim extremist group, which has close links with al-Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban, since 2005.

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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was banned in 2001 for its role in fanning sectarian violence. It is also linked with the 2002 murder of US reporter, Daniel Pearl and other militant attacks, particularly in the southern city of Karachi.

The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Islamabad says that analysts believe many attacks claimed by the Taliban in recent years were in fact carried out by Qari Zafar's Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8544744.stm

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This is the same Zafar that at one point helped lead Fada'iyan-e Islam, a coalition of the Pakistan-based Taliban and a smattering of other terror groups.

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1. too bad Obama doesn't realize this is war