Posted on 02/01/2008 2:32:51 PM PST by Dog
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: A U.S. missile strike that killed a top al-Qaida commander at a house with satellite phones and a computer — only two kilometers (1.3 miles) from a Pakistani military base — showed how entrenched Islamic militants are in the country's lawless tribal regions.
But the successful targeting of Abu Laith al-Libi also suggests that U.S. intelligence in the area is improving, and that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf seems willing to turn a blind eye to such attacks along the Afghan border if they avoid civilian casualties.
Pakistan has yet to confirm al-Libi's death, reported Thursday on Islamic extremist Web sites and confirmed by an American official who said a missile from a U.S. Predator drone hit the veteran al-Qaida leader late Monday in a North Waziristan village.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
Sat phones and a computer were also found..
fyi..
Oh, was the jihadiot living on the base?
Bonus.
That’s like having the crack house across the street from the police station.
I’m just glad we got the SOB.
That ‘safehouse’ wasn’t so safe after all.
Dead al Qaedas ping.
Good. It will serve pour encourager les autres.
Did you see this bit:
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called the strike an important moment in the global war on terror, though he refused to provide details or explicitly say al-Libi was the target.
``While this particular strike was very successful and we were very pleased with the outcome, there is still a great deal more work to do,’’ Mullen told a Pentagon news conference Friday, citing a recent increase in al-Qaida violence against targets inside Pakistan.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963471/
Pelosi and Reid deeply saddened.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia ... with fiends like these, who needs enemas?
Any comment from Barack Obama ?
al-Libi — whose name means “the Libyan” in Arabic — was likely behind the February 2007 bombing at the U.S. base at Bagram in Afghanistan during a visit by Cheney.
“Al-Libi’s death is a significant blow to al-Qaida the organization because he is one of the few people left in the organization who has a historical track record,” said Farhana Ali, terror expert at the RAND corporation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080131/ap_on_re_as/al_qaida_11
An estimated 12 people were killed in the strike late Monday or early Tuesday, including Arabs, Turkeman from central Asia and local Taliban members...
Khalid Habib, the al-Qaida operations chief along the Afghan-Pakistan border, was believed to be dead.
Rosenbach said militants who rise to No. 3 al-Qaida positions, like al-Libi, are often in charge of planning operations, exposing them to capture or death. Others he named included Mohammed Atef, who was killed, and Abu Faraj al-Libbi, who was captured.
Go figure.
Probably used their small arms range too, and their left hand only $hitters.(sarc.)
Atta go USA!
MAybe the next one will be even closer.
Repeat track as needed!
LOL! He's too busy promoting 'change we can believe in'!
Connecting a few dots:
...But, when Raila Odinga, the man who lost the election folks think he should have won, was looked at, things in the political landscape of Kenya suddenly came into focus as Dick Morris had, apparently, been helping out here and there for awhile now. So when you see things like Orange Democratic Movement (hearkening over the the Orange Revolution in Ukraine), a 'million person march' ala Louis Farrakhan's march and then other million person marches afterwards, and National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) hinting at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition/PUSH, things did start to fall into place. Dick Morris is a past master at playing on such themes and would avail himself of any indigenous views along similar lines and help to make such things more palatable to the US political palate. Mind you these Kenyan versions have zero connection to the things they try to lead one to, but that isn't a worry if you are pushing talking points and not substance.
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...In June, Raila flew to the US, where he held talks with Senator Barack Obama, one of the candidates seeking the Democratic Party ticket to vie for the American presidency...
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...Industry sources say that one of the things that helped Raila make a quick buck in the oil business was a concessionary petroleum deal he struck with the Al Bakri Group where he was not only incorporated as a silent partner in the local arm of Al Bakri International...
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Abdulkader Al Bakri listed as a defendant in the First Amendment Complaint suit brought by various insurance companies against al Qaeda and associated organizations and individuals. Within that suit is mentioned documents (known as the Golden Chain document) picked up by Bosnian police on a raid on a charitable front organization for al Qaeda in Sarajevo. One of the listed documents is the "Tareekh Osama" ("Osama's History") in which Abdulkader al Bakri aka Abdel Qader Bakri gets a prominent listing...
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So, when a man like Raila Odinga is linked with Abdulkader al Bakri, you are not making a minor connection, but one directly into al Qaeda.
Such are the vagaries of making political bedfellows in other Nations...
OBAMA->ODINGA->alQUAIDA. LINK
Yeaaarrrrgh!!!!
Well said :
Raila Odinga is linked with Abdulkader al Bakri, you are not making a minor connection, but one directly into al Qaeda.
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