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This image released by Saudi Interior Ministey in late June, 2005, shows two different images of suspected militant Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, a 36-year-old Moroccan who headed the latest list of wanted militants. An Interior Ministry official was quoted by Saudi Press Agency as saying al-Hayari, was killed during a raid Sunday July 3, 2005 by security forces on an area where suspected militants were hiding. (AP Photo/Saudi Interiror Minsitry)


1 posted on 07/03/2005 12:44:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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RIYADH (AFP) - The killing of Al-Qaeda's new frontman in Saudi Arabia means that the network's local branch is now "brain dead" after successive killings of hardcore leaders, a prominent Muslim cleric said.




They have been brain dead for a long time.


2 posted on 07/03/2005 12:48:15 PM PDT by jmc1969
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Where are the fat ladies singing and dancing in the street after this "miracle?" Are they doing that ululation thing?


4 posted on 07/03/2005 12:51:24 PM PDT by stboz
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ping


5 posted on 07/03/2005 12:53:56 PM PDT by Wiz
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But Awaji warned that violence in Saudi Arabia could not be totally eradicated "so long as the crisis in Iraq remains so intense."

So, stop allowing Saudi terrorists to cross into Iraq.

6 posted on 07/03/2005 12:59:49 PM PDT by airborne (Dear Lord, please be with my family in Iraq. Keep them close to You and safely in Your arms.)
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But while the group's militants still on the run do not compare to the likes of their notorious slain chief Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, they remain "dangerous as individuals, rather than as an organization," Sheikh Mohsen al-Awaji told AFP.

This is the point in killing or capturing these guys.

Too many on FR and elsewhere cry that someone else will just take their place. While the new person may fill the same spot in the org chart they do not have the contacts with higher ups in AQ and elsewhere. They do not have the same experience. Many of the "old guard" fought in the Afghan war against the Russians. Others fought in Bosnia. These new guys were still in school then. The average age of the guys on the new list is 27.

It is helpful to think of these organizations like a mob family. While the button men and the lieutenants are dangerous men it is the capos and the godfather who know who to bribe who owes favors etc etc.

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The updated list

7 posted on 07/03/2005 1:04:16 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 51-58)
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it is a very good thing to see the Saudis step up to the plate and take a swing. It loks like a Home Run


8 posted on 07/03/2005 1:04:43 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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Alqaida is a limited corporation. They don't even sell stock. Poor business model even for a non-profit.


9 posted on 07/03/2005 1:06:36 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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I notice that the Saudi's usually kill their terrorists before they ever get to jail.


11 posted on 07/03/2005 1:53:23 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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