Top Al Qaeda Commander killed in Afghanistan

 A senior commander of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan was killed by a U.S. airstrike while he met with four other top insurgents, according to a statement of the U.S. - led coalition military, putting an end to a four-year hunt.

Abu Hafs Al Najdi was killed in Kunar province during an airstrike on 13 April, said the International Assistance Force security (ISAF) in a statement. According to ISAF, "many other insurgents," including head of Al Qaeda named Waqas, were also killed in the attack in the district of Dangam in Kunar, close to the Pakistani border.

Al Najdi, citizen Saudi Arabia, who also went by the name Abdul Ghani, was a key figure of the terrorist organization of Osama bin Laden in the Afghanistan, function of ISAF and number two on the list of the coalition of Al Qaeda targets.

Al Najdi was supposed to be responsible for the "recruitment." training and employing the combatants; obtaining weapons and equipment; organisation al-Qaeda finance; and the planning of attacks against the Afghan coalition forces, "according to the coalition."

The Commander of Saudi Arabia also said to be responsible for an attack in December on a U.S. outpost last December. The statement did not say whether the soldiers were injured in the attack.

Kunar province has seen some of the deadliest fighting for American soldiers since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001. U.S. forces recently closed several of their outposts and bases of the Kunar and neighbouring provinces Nuristan because military officials believed that the area was too remote to manage. Some reports described a resurgence of Arabic Al-Qaeda fighters in the Kunar and Nuristan as U.S. troops withdraw.

U.S. authorities had recently declared as the year last that not more than 100 fighters of al-Qaeda operated in Afghanistan. In its statement announcing the death of Al Nadji, ISAF said it was one of the "more than 25 leaders of al-Qaeda and fighters" who were killed in Afghanistan in the month.