An al-Qadea insurgent, who was responsible for the death of two American soldiers and accused of involvement in a deadly attack on a bus carrying Sri Lanka's cricket team in 2009, was killed in a U.S airstrike in Afghanistan this week, the Pentagon said in a statement.
The strike took place on March 19 in Paktika province and killed Qari Yasin, "a well-known [Qaeda] terrorist leader," who had ties to the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistan Taliban, according to the statement.
"The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape justice," U.S Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in the statement.
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