Drone missile strike kills British 'liquidbomb plotter'

telegraph.co.uk

Nov. 22, 2008

Rashid Rauf the alleged British mastermind of an audacious terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic airliners was killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan.

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