DUBAI (AFP)--Al-Qaeda has confirmed that a top expert on chemical and biological weapons whose killing was reported by Pakistan has died, an Islamist militant Web site said in a statement Sunday. Abu Khabab al-Masri was among a group of "heroes" who have joined "the caravans of martyrs," said the statement signed by Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Al-Qaeda's general commander in Afghanistan. Its authenticity couldn't be independently confirmed. Pakistani officials had said that a July 28 missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal area killed Abu Khabab al-Masri, an Egyptian militant whose full name is Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar. Residents said the strike was carried out by a pilotless U.S. drone. Pakistan's Taliban movement on Saturday denied a U.S. television report that Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been wounded or killed in the same attack. Al-Qaeda's statement, dated July 30 and posted on an Internet site regularly used by Islamist militants, did not say how Abu Khabab al-Masri died. But it said he had sought "martyrdom" and repeatedly urged his command to assign him to carry out a "martyrdom-seeking (suicide) operation." Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=FI5f0lKX5zXrVrExTsojnA%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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