Posted on 09/18/2010 3:56:56 AM PDT by Cindy
PHOTO CAPTION: "A Uighur terrorist, thought to be Abdul Haq al Turkistani, from a videotape released by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in 2008."
SNIPPET: "Abdul Haq al Turkistani, a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis and the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a terror group that seeks to establish an Islamic emirate in western China and Central Asia, was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan in February, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
Turkistani was killed in the Feb. 14, 2010, strike on a compound in the village of Zor Babar Aidak near Mir Ali in North Waziristan, officials said. US Predators fired two missiles at the compound, which was being used as a secret training camp. Five terrorists, including Turkistani, were reported killed in the strike.
The town of Mir Ali is a known stronghold of al Qaeda leader Abu Kasha al Iraqi, an Iraqi national who is also known as Abu Akash. He has close links to the Taliban and the Haqqani Network. The Haqqani Network and Hafiz Gul Bahadar also have influence in the Mir Ali region.
The Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party is known to operate in in the Mir Ali region along with the Islamic Jihad Group, an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan."
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/09/etip_leader_killed_i.php
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
He got his 72 virgins on Valentine's day. How romantic.
We DO all think alike here. Ha!
"A Uighur terrorist... Abdul Haq al Turkistani, a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis and the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a terror group that seeks to establish an Islamic emirate in western China and Central Asia, was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan... in the Feb. 14, 2010, strike on a compound in the village of Zor Babar Aidak near Mir Ali in North Waziristan... US Predators fired two missiles at the compound, which was being used as a secret training camp. Five terrorists, including Turkistani, were reported killed in the strike.Killed in February, just now announced? Looks like Zero's people have been saving stuff up to feed into the spin-hungry partisan media shills in the last weeks before the election.
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