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The al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead, a senior U.S. official tells ABCNews.com. The al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead,... The al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead, a senior U.S. official tells ABCNews.com. The official says the U.S. now has evidence that Khalid Habib was killed in an unmanned air strike two weeks ago in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan. Until now, there had been no...

A missile attack from a remotely piloted American aircraft is believed to have killed a senior member of al-Qaeda in South Waziristan on Thursday, a former member of a militant group in the region said in an interview. The operative, Khalid Habib, an Egyptian who was chief of operations in Pakistan’s tribal region, is described by the CIA as the fourth-ranking person in the Qaeda hierarchy. The attack, on the village of Taparghai, killed four people, some of them Arabs, according to initial reports on Thursday. A Pakistani intelligence official declined on Friday to confirm the death of Habib. An...