Al-Qaeda Pakistani Official Pays Tribute To Militant Commander Badr Mansoor, Accuses Pakistan Of Collaborating With U.S. Drone Program

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March 12, 2012
Special Dispatch No.4562

Al-Qaeda Pakistani Official Pays Tribute To Militant Commander Badr Mansoor, Accuses Pakistan Of Collaborating With U.S. Drone Program

In a new video, Ustad Ahmad Farooq, head of Al-Qaeda's Dawa and Media Department for Pakistan, pays tribute to Commander Badr Mansoor - a militant with experience waging jihad in Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The nine minute and 51 second-long video, produced in the Urdu language by Al-Sahab, the media arm of Al-Qaeda, was released on a jihadist internet forum. Ustad Ahmad Farooq says that Badr Mansoor was a native of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and was "martyred a few days ago" in a U.S. drone attack.

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