Bin Laden's brother-in-law 'killed in Madagascar'

A brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, wanted in the Philippines for alleged terror financing, has been killed in Madagascar in what appeared to be a burglary, the victim’s brother said today.

Jamal Khalifa, married to a sister of the al Qaida leader, was killed when gunmen broke into his house in a Madagascan village, his brother Malek Khalifa said in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.