John Batchelor April 4,2016 mp3 

Take-Away 1 KIA Al Qaeda. Add 2 At-Large Al Qaeda

Take-Away 1 KIA Al Qaeda. Add 2 At-Large Al Qaeda. @thomasjoscelyn, FDD. @gordongchang, Daily Beast. @jedbabbin, AmSpec. @thadmccotter.

“Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook confirmed today that the US targeted Abu Firas al Suri, a senior al Qaeda leader and member of Al Nusrah Front’s elite shura (advisory) council, in an airstrike in Syria.

“The US military conducted an airstrike on a senior al Qaeda operational meeting in northwest Syria on Sunday [Apr. 3], resulting in several enemy [sic] killed,” Cook told reporters during a briefing. “We assess that al Qaeda senior leader Abu Firas al Suri was in that meeting and we are working to confirm his death.”

“Cook described al Suri as a “legacy al Qaeda member” who “fought in Afghanistan in the 80s and 90s and worked with Osama bin Laden and other founding al Qaeda members to train terrorists and conduct attacks globally.”
 
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/04/pentagon-confirms-us-targeted-veteran-al-qaeda-leader-in-syria.php