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Senior militant 'killed in Iraq' (al-Qaeda)
BBC News ^
| September 25, 2006
| Jim Muir
Posted on 09/25/2006 6:44:06 AM PDT by jmc1969
British forces have killed a senior al-Qaeda fugitive in a raid on a house in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, security sources say.
Officials named the dead man as Omar Farouq, a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia.
Farouq was captured in Indonesia in 2002 but escaped from a US military prison in Afghanistan last year.
Security sources say he was hiding in Basra and al-Qaeda was not known to be actively operating in the area.
A British military spokesman said forces came under fire and that the man they were trying to detain was killed in the exchange.
The British military said only that they believed the wanted man belonged to a terrorist group, but security sources in Basra later named the dead man as Omar Farouq.
They said he was a significant figure in the international al-Qaeda movement.
Prison escape
Born in Kuwait of Iraqi parents, Farouq is believed to have joined al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and trained in Afghanistan.
He became a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia and he is believed to have been planning a series of bomb attacks on US embassies there when he was arrested in Indonesia in 2002.
To the considerable embarrassment of the Americans, he and three others escaped from the US military prison at Bagram airbase in Kabul last year.
He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; iraq
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:44:06 AM PDT
by
jmc1969
To: jmc1969
He won't be escaping from any more prisons.
To: jmc1969
It appears that this will make any further escape attempts by Farouq less likely to succeed.
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:48:50 AM PDT
by
Binkmeister
(A little knowledge is a dangerous thing)
To: jmc1969
Isn't everything reported in the media some kind of embarrassment to the US.
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:49:49 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: Binkmeister
What kind of terrorist idiot excapes to Iraq?
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:51:34 AM PDT
by
jmc1969
To: jmc1969
"
He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it."
lol, maybe not such a good idea.
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:52:24 AM PDT
by
MozartLover
( My son, my soldier, my hero.....................is coming home in 45 days!!!!!!!)
To: jmc1969
"Senior militant"?
Is that a job classification?
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:54:55 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: jmc1969
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posted on
09/25/2006 6:56:25 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: jmc1969
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:00:13 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF 69-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
To: jmc1969
Impossible! Everyone knows there are no al-Qaeda in Iraq! Rubbish! /s
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:00:33 AM PDT
by
RedCell
("...thou shalt kill thine enemy before he killeth you by any means available" - Dick Marcinko)
To: jmc1969
...to boast about it. Well, I guess his boasting days are over.
To: jmc1969
I thought there was no Iraq - Al Qaeda link?
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:14:47 AM PDT
by
truthandlife
("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
To: jmc1969
"Militant?"
"Fugitive?"
They're getting warmer, yet they still can't bring themselves to call these vermin, "TERRORISTS."
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:17:57 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: jmc1969
Maybe Osama will name a university after this guy: Farouq U.
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:25:53 AM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Wonderful Troops.)
To: jmc1969
Iraq is still the perfect "roach motel" for terrorists...
The terrorists check in, but they don't check out!
To: jmc1969
Senior militant 'killed in Iraq' ???? 
Or did they mean...Senior militantterrorist 'killed in Iraq'
To: jmc1969
When and where is the funeral? Maybe we can send "condolances" and "flowers" more appropriately this time...
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:37:20 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
To: jmc1969
Senior militant 'killed in Iraq'
Militant? Don't they mean reformer, or activist? Militant has such a violent militarist tone to it.
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:39:26 AM PDT
by
Valin
(http://www.irey.com/)
To: jigsaw
Maybe not Jig, he's dead too. Oh yeah, don't bomb his funeral either, they might not like us anymore if we did that.
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:39:31 AM PDT
by
SFC Chromey
(We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
To: C210N
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posted on
09/25/2006 7:40:10 AM PDT
by
Valin
(http://www.irey.com/)
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