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US Confirms Death of Al-Qaeda Facilitator Al-Muslimi in Tuesday Strike in Syria

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US Confirms Death of Al-Qaeda Facilitator Al-Muslimi in Tuesday Strike in Syria

20:11 GMT 19.01.2017 (Updated: 11:29 GMT 06.08.2022)

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Cook said that the US military eliminated al-Qaida facilitator Abd al-Jalil al-Muslimi during a counterterrorism airstrike.

"The death of Abd al-Jalil al-Muslimi will degrade al-Qaeda in Syria's access to that cadre of veteran plotters, which will likely disrupt its ongoing terror plotting," Cook stated on Thursday.

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