Score one for the good guys.
Via LWJ:
An Egyptian jihadist who fought alongside al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its political front, Ansar al Sharia, was killed in a recent US drone strike in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa.
The Madad News Agency, a propaganda arm of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, announced the death of an Egyptian known as Abu Musab al Masri. The statement was published on Madad’s Facebook page and has been translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
According to Madad, al Masri died “a week ago in an American bombing over one of the sites of the mujahideen of Ansar al-Shariah between the cities of Azan and al-Hotah in Shabwa province.”
Madad said that al Masri had been detained by the Egyptian government for attempting to wage jihad against the US, but then had been released and subsequently “participated in the revolution to oust the tyrant [Eyptian President Hosni Mubarak].” Afterward he traveled to Yemen and fought “on the Zinjibar front.” AQAP seized control of Zinjibar in May 2011 and has held off three Yemeni Army divisions.