Posted on 08/03/2022 6:40:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed at the home of an FBI-wanted Taliban lackey who was once given a platform by the New York Times.
The jihadist, one of the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks, was taken out by a CIA drone strike Sunday morning at a Kabul home belonging to senior Taliban official Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to initial reporting by the Gray Lady herself.
The publication infamously published an op-ed penned by Haqqani — the leader of the insurgent Haqqani Network in Afghanistan linked to brutal and deadly attacks — to ask for a peace agreement between US and Afghan leaders in 2020.
The paper was slammed by critics and even its own reporters for giving the global terrorist a megaphone to thousands of readers to spew what many saw as thinly veiled propaganda. The Times defended its decision to publish the piece at the time.
“For more than four decades, precious Afghan lives have been lost every day. Everyone has lost somebody they loved. Everyone is tired of war. I am convinced that the killing and the maiming must stop,” Haqqani wrote.
“We did not choose our war with the foreign coalition led by the United States. We were forced to defend ourselves.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
DNA.
There are reports this guy died some years ago...Greg Kelly showed the news reports last night
He’s died more times than Sean Bean.
All found easily via Google.
I say this because of the latest Chinese threats to the USA prompted by the peg legged drunk just landed in Taiwan.
IMO, this "news byte" is a pre-election gambit to shore up democrat candidates.
He’s the new James Bond, alive even when you think he’s been killed many times over.
The man Haqqani was hosting, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was not an Afghan, he was Egyptian.
Ahhh, there is the lie and the rub.
To Haqqani, the Taliban and Ayman al-Zawahiri, THEIR war is not about Afghanistan or Egypt, it’s about Islam and about Jihad against all infidels. Had the “great power” supporting the democratic government of Afghanistan been a coalition of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the Taliban would have lost the loyalty of the Afghans, because they would not have been able to portray their foreign opponents as infidels. In sum, it was never a war “for Afghanistan” from the beginning of the formation of the Taliban. It was always a war of Islamic Jihad against non-believers (anyone not believing their form of Islam), be they foreigners or Afghans.
Are we sure it wasn’t just a family getting bottled water out of the trunk?
Khashoggi’s time share?
Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the Haqqani Network, is the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the network and noted Afghan Freedom Fighter.
>>Jalaluddin Haqqani distinguished himself as an internationally sponsored insurgent fighter in the 1980s during the Soviet–Afghan War, including in Operation Magistral. He earned U.S. praise and was called “goodness personified” by the U.S. officials.[6][7][8] US officials have admitted that during the Soviet–Afghan War, he was a prized asset of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[9] Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan called Jalaluddin Haqqani a “freedom fighter” during the Soviet–Afghan War.[10] By 2004, he was directing pro-Taliban insurgent group to launch a holy war in Afghanistan. In 2016, U.S. Lieutenant General John W. Nicholson Jr. claimed that the U.S. and NATO were not targeting Haqqani’s network in Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaluddin_Haqqani
That is a keeper!
wierd story.
where did the drone come from?
how could the USA launch a drone from Afghanistan. They certainly couldn’t launch it from Iran.
did the drone come from pakistan?
Who ever got sliced up seems to have had the habit of when awaking in the morning, going out to the balcony and piss’n over the edge.
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