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Exclusive: Al Qaeda No. 2 Injured?
cbsnews.com ^ | August 1, 2008

Posted on 08/01/2008 5:08:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Unverified Letter Obtained By CBS News Urgently Requests Doctor To Treat Ayman al-Zawahiri

CBS) Ayman al-Zawahiri - the second most powerful leader in al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's No. 2 - may be critically wounded and possibly dead, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports exclusively.

CBS News has obtained a copy of an intercepted letter from sources in Pakistan, which urgently requests a doctor to treat al-Zawahiri. He's believed to be somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas of Pakistan.

The letter refers to Sheikh Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri by name - and says that he is in "severe pain" and his "injuries are infected."

It is reportedly written by local Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, whose signature and seal are visible on the letter.

The Taliban logo and the Mehsud's seal have been confirmed by experts as legitimate.

However, CBS News has not been able to confirm the authenticity of Baitullah Mehsud's signature and seal.

The letter is dated July 29 - one day after a U.S. air strike that killed al Qaeda weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Masri, and five other Arabs in South Waziristan.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2good2betrue; afghanistan; alqaeda; alzawahiri; aymanalzawahiri; binladen; globaljihad; mohammedanism; pakistan; taliban; wot; zawahiri
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Great news.
Let it be so.
If OBL still uses oxygen, he probably felt the blast that got al-Zawahiri.

Petreaus will soon take over in the ‘ghan...I think we will see things get progressively very inhospitable to these miscreants.

141 posted on 08/01/2008 8:50:09 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He's believed to be somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas of Pakistan.

where on earth do these fools go to j-school?

142 posted on 08/01/2008 8:51:50 PM PDT by wardaddy ("Cause my grey hair just can't cover up my redneck.")
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To: coldoc; infowarrior

Thanks!


143 posted on 08/01/2008 8:58:18 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: maine-iac7

I’m talking bout the One, but the spanish one was good too.


144 posted on 08/01/2008 8:59:26 PM PDT by Huck (A Teddy Roosevelt wannabe is better than a Che Guevara wannabe.)
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To: wardaddy
"He's believed to be somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas of Pakistan." where on earth do these fools go to j-school?

nice catch

145 posted on 08/01/2008 9:00:43 PM PDT by Selmore (Son Matthew is at Ft. Sill, Daughter Kimberly is at Parris Island.)
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To: All
Damnit:

No evidence of al Qaeda No. 2's illness or death, U.S. says

146 posted on 08/01/2008 9:01:13 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Huck
Forgive me for asking, but this being a thread about possibly getting the man closest to OBL and the brains behind al Quaeda and you are guys are discussing your favorite teams/players?

Are you posting on this thread by mistake?
If not, mightn't you take it to private mail or start your own thread???

(As someone who has had family fighting on that hellish border for the past year and a half, I may be a bit sensitive to this thread being used for non-related chatter.)

147 posted on 08/01/2008 9:02:54 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Would his injuries get infected that fast?

That thought crossed my mind too but - two things: It's way over 100 degrees there and about as unsanitary as it gets.

He may have been injured in a previous 'door yard call" a few weeks ago when he was the prime target, and he's just not healing well.

Whatever and whichever, may this be true and that the next news will be even better.

148 posted on 08/01/2008 9:07:02 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: Chgogal

Bump Dat!...;0)


149 posted on 08/01/2008 9:10:50 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: maine-iac7

Sorry. We digressed and then digressed from our earlier digression. But we eventually stopped. I apologize for getting chatty. This is great news if true, and I’m very encouraged by all the great news from Iraq as well. I wish our brave soldiers, including those near and dear to you, Godspeed and the very best of luck. They are heros.


150 posted on 08/01/2008 9:11:26 PM PDT by Huck (A Teddy Roosevelt wannabe is better than a Che Guevara wannabe.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

It all depends on the severity of the injuries of course if this report this true and I greatly hope it is. Please remember that terrorists who got injured are most likely to die if the injury is in a critical part of the body because they do not have access to any advanced or even moderate medical care. I think they may survive minor injuries and injuries to arms and legs but most other injuries will most likely lead to their death.


151 posted on 08/01/2008 9:15:00 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless President Bush and our brave troops)
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To: coldoc

I am sure you’d know best, but I have to say that as resilient as the human body is, if you get a wound even half as serious you describe and you’re located in some remote jackwater uncivilized wasteland like Waziristan — you’re boned to the max and there isn’t jack squat anyone can do for your sorry ass.


152 posted on 08/01/2008 9:15:53 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Huck
Sorry. We digressed and then digressed from our earlier digression.

LOL

153 posted on 08/01/2008 9:22:45 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
and says that he is in "severe pain" and his "injuries are infected."

Good

154 posted on 08/01/2008 9:27:01 PM PDT by txroadkill (Liberals believe that the only oppressed people in Cuba are the terrorist in GitMo)
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To: shalom aleichem
The spot on his forehead is probably a Seal sniper’s laser dot.

He didn't always have the spot. Here he is in 1982, ranting in English from an Egyptian cage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfEJfIkFvuU

155 posted on 08/01/2008 9:40:25 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Travis McGee

I'm thinking this Lara Logan is the CBS reporter who is causing problems with sleeping around with other "journalists" and military guys in Iraq.  Love triangle stuff.

156 posted on 08/01/2008 9:51:03 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to cry.")
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To: Straight Vermonter
No evidence of al Qaeda No. 2's illness or death, U.S. says

Also this week, there were reports that a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan on Monday may have killed al Qaeda bomb-making and poisons expert Abu Khabab al-Masri, who was previously reported killed in 2006.

This is great! We get to kill these suckers over and over again. "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once." William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar," Act 2, Scene II. The full speech:

CAESAR
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

It always seemed telling to me that AQ founders and leaders like Zawahiri and bin Laden do everything possible to avoid death, while preaching to their followers that paradise and 72 virgins await jihadists doing Mohammed's supposed bidding.

Shakespeare's Ceasar had it exactly right. Such men are COWARDS. They will die many times before their deaths.

157 posted on 08/01/2008 9:51:48 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("My 80% friend is not my enemy." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Senator Obama declared, “this is not the same Ayman Al Zawahiri I knew, I am very disappointed.” s/


158 posted on 08/01/2008 9:57:34 PM PDT by RadioCirca1970 (Welcome to the Terror Dome....)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Apply all dressings with bacon bandages..


159 posted on 08/01/2008 9:58:53 PM PDT by RadioCirca1970 (Welcome to the Terror Dome....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

May the face of each of the 3,000 victims of September 11, 2001 pass before him while he is in physical agony before death.

I know I can picture three of them.


160 posted on 08/01/2008 10:01:40 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve--and they are about to get it --in spades.)
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