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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Chris_ on August 03, 2008, 10:08:53 PM
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Al-Qaida confirms death of leading commander al-Masri (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008128.html)
CAIRO - Al-Qaida yesterday confirmed the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago. Abu Khabab al-Masri had a $5-million bounty on his head from the United States, and was believed to have been killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week.
In an Internet statement, Al-Qaida said al-Masri and three other top figures were killed, though it did not provide details of their deaths.
Pakistani authorities have said they believe al-Masri is one of six people who were killed in an American airstrike on July 28 on a compound in South Waziristan, a lawless tribal region near the Afghan border.
Good job. We need to get this other al-Masri SOB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ayyub_al-Masri) next.
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If you can't say something good........He's dead? That's GOOD!
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how many al masri's are there? his name sounded familiar. I thought we got him in an airstrike a year ago. am I dreaming?
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how many al masri's are there? his name sounded familiar. I thought we got him in an airstrike a year ago. am I dreaming?
Lots. They're noms de guerre, not real family names. If I recall correctly, al-Masri refers to some locale, like "The Egyptian" in English ('cept I don't remember if it's actually Egypt or some damn other sandbox), so there's lot of "al-Jihadis," "al-Syrianis," etc.
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I hope his time in HELL is nice and hot.