DUBAI: A Jordanian Taliban commander, moved to Afghanistan in 1999 and stayed on to fight US-led forces, was killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan, extremist websites monitored by US-based SITE Intelligence said on Monday.
The Al Fallujah and Shamukh al Islam forums announced the ?martyrdom? of Mahmud Mahdi Zeidan on January 10, whose nome de guerre was Mansur al Shami, SITE reported. ?The martyrdom of Mahmud Mahdi Zeidan… on the soil of Pakistan, the land of the diligent and of the mujahedeen is confirmed,? it reported.
SITE did not specify which drone strike the Jordanian was killed in. Pakistani officials said last week that 13 militants were killed in two US drone strikes in Waziristan, of whom four were foreign.
Zeidan had most recently appeared on January 4 in a recording by As-Sahab ? a website frequently used by Al Qaeda ? giving a sermon, the US monitoring group said.
He also recorded an audio message released by As-Sahab in August last year giving advice to mujahideen. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the man believed to have killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan earlier this month, was also of Jordanian origin.
