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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A British citizen linked to a plot to blow up jetliners flying across the Atlantic was believed killed Saturday by an apparent U.S. missile attack on an al-Qaeda redoubt near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.
If confirmed, the death of Rashid Rauf would bolster U.S. claims that missile strikes on extremist strongholds in northwestern Pakistan are protecting the West against another Sept. 11, 2001-style terrorist attack.
Pakistani Information Minister Sherry Rehman also reiterated the government’s complaint that missile attacks, apparently launched from unmanned aircraft, are fanning anti-Americanism and Islamic extremism tearing at Pakistan and Afghanistan.
