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Ibrahim Al-Asiri is linked to a bomb that a Nigerian man allegedly tried to detonate on a Detroit-bound plane in 2009. (CBC) A top Yemeni official says al-Qaeda's chief bomb-maker in Yemen was not killed in the U.S. drone strike on a convoy two days ago.
U.S. intelligence officials had said that bomb maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri may have been killed. But on Sunday a Yemeni official said Al-Asiri was not among those who died in the drone attack.
Al-Asiri has been linked to the bomb that authorities allege a Nigerian man tried to detonate aboard a Detroit-bound plane in 2009.
The FBI pulled al-Asiri's fingerprint off that bomb. Authorities also believe he built the bombs that al-Qaeda slipped into printers and shipped to the U.S. last year in a nearly catastrophic attack.
The Yemeni official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
Killed in the strike last Friday were the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the co-editor of an online English-language magazine, Samir Khan, a Saudi-born Pakistani American who had urged American Muslims to carry out attacks.
Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, directed the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in 2009 and the failed attempt to blow up U.S. cargo planes in 2010.
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