Posted on 12/24/2005 8:51:28 AM PST by TexasGreg
By JAMES GORDON MEEK WASHINGTON - Before he was captured last spring, Osama Bin Laden's top operational commander was solely focused on killing President Bush and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharaff, the Daily News has learned. The capture last May of Al Qaeda's No. 3 leader, Abu Faraj Al-Libi, apparently thwarted plots to assassinate the two partners in the global war on terror, said a senior Pakistani official, whose information was corroborated by two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials.
"Al-Libi had one mission: Kill Bush and Musharraf," the Pakistani official told The News. "He wanted to kill Bush in the White House, preferably."
"It was clearly something they wanted to do. There's no question about that. It's the holy grail of jihad," a senior U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed.
Al-Libi organized several failed assassination attempts on Musharraf before he was nabbed, officials have said. But the plot by Al Qaeda's international operations chief to send assassins to the U.S. to kill Bush was only disclosed this week.
The officials asked for anonymity because details of the Bush plot are still highly classified. The officials added that there is little evidence the U.S. mission advanced beyond initial planning by Al-Libi in Pakistan.
Two years before Al-Libi's capture by Pakistani and CIA operatives in Pakistan's mountainous North-West Frontier province, near where many believe Bin Laden is hiding, American officials were informed by Musharraf envoys that the top Al Qaeda thug was bent on assassinating Bush, officials said.
Officials said it was not known if Bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, personally ordered Al-Libi to hit the U.S. President.
Al-Libi replaced 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was captured in Pakistan in March 2003. Al-Libi's aide and successor, Abu Hamza Rabia, was killed this month in Pakistan by a missile fired from an unmanned CIA predator drone, sources said.
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Awwwwww, poor Farooooouge who failed in his mission, won't be invited to the next Ramadamadingdong event. Tsk tsk.
You are right..the rats are poofed because their covert plan to aid AQ in killing Bush went awry.
Excellent us of the word "fiend" in the headline.
Hmmm ... did a search for both title and author ... couldn't find it. Oh, well.
This is not a duplicate...it's just related to a different article from yesterday.
You. are. evil.
I wish I'd thought of it.
I first read it incorrectly as "friend", and immediately thought of Howard Dean.
I wonder where Al-Libi is today? Bet he's being squeezed in every imaginable way.
Ugliest terrorist. Ever.
Al Qaeda fiend targeted Bush
John Kerry?
"Ramadamadingdong"
We have a WINNER! This is very very funny.
John Kerry? Bwahahahahahahaha!
That's disturbing. Not that they could ever get to him in the WH, but how creepy. Then you have the dims all with their heads in the sand (and elsewhere) denying we are under attack.
The Dems were preparing to give this guy the Humanitarian of the Year award if he succeeded. We're always screwing up their plans!
That's disturbing. Not that they could ever get to him in the WH,<<<<
Don't count it out, aren't there muzleem secret service? Isn't W's barber a muzleem?
"Ramadamadingdong
You. are. evil.
I wish I'd thought of it."
LOL..it comes with my job...RN's are EEEEEEEEEEVIL! Don't mess with nurses..hehehe :)
Ramadamadingdong"
We have a WINNER! This is very very funny."
LOL..I've been using that term for months now. I think Dana Carvey started it years back but something else-dingdog was his version. It might have been when he went off on his rants when he "played" Ross Perot..seems like that was it.
Glad you liked it :)
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