text: US confirms death of al Qaeda leader Qari Yasin in airstrike - CBS News
  March 25, 2017 / 10:29 PM / AP
  WASHINGTON -- A U.S. counterterrorism airstrike earlier this month in Afghanistan killed an al-Qaida leader responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said Saturday.