Ahmed Salim Swedan
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Sheikh
Ahmed Salim Swedan (d ) was a citizen of Kenya
believed to hold a leadership role in Al Qaeda.
According to The Guardian
Ahmed Salim Swedan was the deputy to Usama Al Kini, another Kenyan, who
was the head of Al Qaeda's operations in Pakistan
.
A Hellfire missile fired from a Predator UAV is report to have killed both Al Kini and Swedan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas
on January 1, 2009.
Sheikh
Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...
Ahmed Salim Swedan (d ) was a citizen of Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
believed to hold a leadership role in Al Qaeda.
According to The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
Ahmed Salim Swedan was the deputy to Usama Al Kini, another Kenyan, who
was the head of Al Qaeda's operations in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
.
A Hellfire missile fired from a Predator UAV is report to have killed both Al Kini and Swedan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwest of Pakistan, lying between the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the neighboring country of Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seven Agencies and six FRs...
on January 1, 2009.