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Top militant calling for attacks on China killed

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-03-02 11:18
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PESHAWAR: An al Qaeda-linked militant who has called for attacks on China has been killed in a US missile strike in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence and Taliban officials said on Monday.

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Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, leader of a group called the Turkistani Islamic Party (TIP), was killed in an attack by a US drone aircraft in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on February 15, they said.

"Abdul Haq al-Turkistani was among three militants killed," said a Pakistani intelligence agency official who declined to be identified.

A Taliban militant official also said al-Turkistani had been killed in the US missile strike.

Last year, al-Turkistani appeared in a video on an Islamist website calling for Chinese people to be attacked at home and abroad.
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