A purported al Qaeda spokesman says nine al Qaeda commanders have been killed by security forcers in southern Afghanistan recently. Those killed were identified as Abu Anas, Abu Abdullah Al Asmi, Shuaib Sahrayee, and Abu Masaab Al Tami from Saudi Arabia; Khalid and Nauman from Pakistan; Abu Zaki from Kuwait; Jafar from Tajikistan; and Abu Musa from Turkey.
