Posted on 10/31/2008 11:46:08 AM PDT by STARWISE
The al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead, a senior U.S. official tells ABCNews.com.
The al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead,...
The al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead, a senior U.S. official tells ABCNews.com.
The official says the U.S. now has evidence that Khalid Habib was killed in an unmanned air strike two weeks ago in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan.
Until now, there had been no official confirmation of reports of Habib's death from local militants in the area.
"He was the person responsible for planning and organizing attacks in the Pakistan and overseas, including the U.S.," the senior official said. "This was a really big deal that has not received much attention."
Considered the number four leader of al Qaeda, Habib was a long-time associate close to both Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Habib had been reported killed by Pakistani officials several times over the last few years, only to re-emerge at the center of what U.S. official say is the al Qaeda operational command.
The death of Habib is the most significant result of a controversial two-month long U.S. offensive in Pakistan employing CIA-controlled unmanned aircraft, known as Predators, equipped with powerful Hellfire missiles.
There have been more than a dozen Predator strikes in the last two months as the U.S. has sought to disrupt efforts by al Qaeda to organize new terror attacks from its safe haven locations inside Pakistan.
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Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalid, Cornel West, Jeremiah Wright, and many other close pals and supporters of Barack Obama are deeply saddened!
Another anti-American terrorist bites the dust.......
Khalid Habib... Is this the guy LA Times don’t want us to know about?
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In late 2006, Breininger got a job for a package-delivery company, where he met a Pakistani who got him interested in radical Islam. A short time later, he also became friends with a radical Islamic convert named Daniel Schneider.
Breininger began calling himself Abdul Ghaffar el Almani, avoiding his old friends and burning his CDs. He swore off drugs and alcohol. He married in a mosque, and his wife Eva P. wore a veil. The marriage was short-lived.
“He wanted me to clean and cook and said he was looking for another woman,” Eva P. later said in a television interview.
In June 2007, Breininger sold off most of his belongings on ebay, saying he wanted to go abroad and learn Arabic, and moved in with Schneider.
In September, Schneider, who had relocated to the Western German region of Sauerland, was arrested along with two other suspected Islamists for allegedly trying to make car bombs and planning attacks on US targets in Germany. Breininger disappeared before police could detain him.
Police suspect Breininger has since received training in a terrorist camp, possibly in Pakistan. Both German and American military forces in Afghanistan are reported to have distributed pictures of him, warning that he is a potential suicide attacker.
How big a danger?
The Breininger case raises the question of how great a threat German converts to Islam pose.
“Converts can be more easily radicalized,” Kai Hirschmann of Germany's Institute for Terrorism Research and Study told a Internet news site around the time of Scheider’s arrest.
“As ‘novices’ they try to be more religious than even the religious leaders,” Hirschmann added. “That often makes them especially fanatical and also especially dangerous.”
Other experts, however, disagree with that assessment.
“You can't say that conversion to Islam carries an explicit tendency toward becoming a radical,” Stefan Reichmuth, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Bochum told DW-WORLD.DE.
Estimates of the number of German converts to Islam range between 15,000 and 80,000. But Germany's Muslim league says that, of them, only about 25 fit the description of being radical or dangerously fanatic.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3732626,00.html
Isn't that the strike where the world media said we killed women and children and kittens and puppies?
yes, the al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead
Probably ... and brides and grooms and pediatric ward personnel. ... ;)
That’s Rashid Khalidi ....
brothers from a similar ideology, thos.
Hey IP. Welcome aboard. May your stay be pleasant as well as informative.
I believe you’re right. It looks like the Pakistani government is working with us now and we’re going to be able to make real progress.
He will be biggest Pussy in office since Carter. The difference being, Pelosi will run the show behind the scenes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120807/posts
Different source, different author ... and your point is ?
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