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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SilverOrchid on January 31, 2008, 12:56:55 PM
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Al Qaeda Commander in Afghanistan Dead
Thursday, January 31, 2008
CAIRO, Egypt — One Al Qaeda's top commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi was killed according to a Web site used by militant groups, reported the Washington-based SITE Institute which monitors the internet.
While the claim could not be verified independently, the announcement appeared as a banner in a section of the Web site reserved for affiliated militant organizations.
"As the banner was posted ... by a webmaster of the forum, it seems as if the announcement of his death has been confirmed to the forum administrators," noted SITE in its statement.
Al-Libi was an Al Qaeda training camp leader who has appeared in many Internet videos and who the U.S. says was likely behind the Feb. 2007 bombing at the U.S. base at Bagram during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney that killed 23 people.
A knowledgeable Western official said that "it appears at this point that Al-Libi has met his demise," but declined to talk about the circumstances. "It was a major success in taking one of the top terrorists in the world off the street," the official said. He added that the death occurred "within the last few days."
Al-Libi was a key link between the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
He was listed among the 12 most-wanted men the U.S. offered a US$200,000 reward for five.
Pakistani counterterrorism officials say al-Libi — "the Libyan" in Arabic language — has served as an Al Qaeda spokesman and commander in eastern Afghanistan. They say they have no information on his current whereabouts.
Al Qaeda's media wing, al-Sahab, released a video interview with a bearded man identified as al-Libi in spring 2007. In it, the militant accused Shiite Muslims of fighting alongside American forces in Iraq, and claimed that mujahideen would crush foreign troops in Afghanistan. Al-Libi made no reference to the Feb. 27 attack at Bagram.
Maj. Chris Belcher, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, said last year that al-Libi was a guerrilla fighter "knowledgeable about how to conduct suicide bombing missions and how to inflict the most civilian casualties." He had probably directed "one or more terror training camps."
In a tacit admission that terror camps have continued to operate on Afghan soil since the Taliban regime's ouster more than five years ago, Belcher said al-Libi had been the subject of "especially close focus" by U.S. intelligence since 2005, when U.S. forces destroyed a militant training camp believed set up by al-Libi in the eastern province of Khost.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327206,00.html
This is great news!!!!!!!! :bday: :cheerleader2: :rocker: :usflag:
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Woo Hoo!!!
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"There's good news tonight..."
:cheersmate:
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Hell has a new occupant. I hope he spends eternity getting mail from Publishers Clearing House.
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Hell has a new occupant. I hope he spends eternity getting mail from Publishers Clearing House.
Now THAT is a curse!!! :)
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Great News!
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The DUmmys will cry, Code Pink will sigh, and the Democrat party will lose another voting guy.
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Now if we just had the stones to tell Musharaff to go screw himself and go after the AlQ's hiding in Warziristan.
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Adios cucaracha! :evillaugh:
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Now if we just had the stones to tell Musharaff to go screw himself and go after the AlQ's hiding in Warziristan.
Apparently we are operating drones over at least Northern Waziristan.
Adam Gadahn - American al-Qaeda Killed In U.S. Strike/
UNCONFIRMED: Following unconfirmed reports of killing of a high-profile al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi, there are now rumours that an American al-Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, had been killed in the alleged Predator attack by the US on a house in Mirali, North Waziristan, a few days back.
32-year-old Adam Gadahn, who is American citizen belonging to southern California, has been accused by the US of praising the perpetrators of September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and attending al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal areas.
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Link (http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/02/07/adam-gadahn-american-al-qaeda-killed-in-us-strike/)
It's all good.
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It's not a Predator strike, it's 'Service of Arrest Warrant, Spicy Cajun Style.'
:-)
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It's not a Predator strike, it's 'Service of Arrest Warrant, Spicy Cajun Style.'
:-)
:evillaugh: