Two top Al-Qaeda leaders from Kenya, including the one responsible for the devastating Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad last year, were killed in a US missile strike inside Pakistan this month.

Identified as Usama al-Kini, Al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan, and his lieutenant, Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan, the two were killed in the missile strike conducted on January 1, said The Washington Post, which first reported the incident quoting an unnamed US counter-terrorism official.