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Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan
AFP ^
| 11/22/08
| AFP
Posted on 11/22/2008 12:50:18 PM PST by mdittmar
The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, after spending almost a year on the run.
Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman's house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district that is a known stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Also among the five killed in the early morning incident was Egyptian Abu Zubair al-Misri, another wanted Al-Qaeda operative, a senior Pakistani security official said on condition of anonymity.
"The transatlantic bombing plot alleged mastermind Rashid Rauf was killed along with an Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative in the US missile strike in North Waziristan early Saturday," a senior security official told AFP.
A Western diplomatic source said the missile was fired from a jet across the border in Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at afp.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; drone; heblowedup; hebloweduprealgood; islam; jihad; kabooom; pakistan; uav; wot
Another one bites the dust.
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:50:18 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:51:24 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: mdittmar
He was on the run. That only means he died tired.
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:52:07 PM PST
by
alloysteel
(Molon labe! Roughly translated, "Come and take them!" referring to personal weapons.)
To: BenLurkin
the DNC won’t have their day in court with him (sniff).
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:53:35 PM PST
by
Liaison
To: alloysteel
Guess he won’t have the guts to that again;)
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:54:28 PM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
To: mdittmar
I have one simple rule I live my life by...”Never, under any circumstances. attend a wedding ceremony in a remote Pakistani village.”
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:54:38 PM PST
by
Onelifetogive
(I'm gonna drop talk radio in favor of some audio books. Gotta lower my blood pressure.)
To: mdittmar
A two-fer! Nice shooting!
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posted on
11/22/2008 12:59:46 PM PST
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: mdittmar
To: mdittmar
So why was Pakistan so upset when the attack occured, it’s not like they’re going to go after AQ in their country.
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posted on
11/22/2008 1:03:16 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Admin Moderator: Something like a GRUE... on performance enhancing substances.)
To: Darksheare
Feigned Pakistan anger is for local consumption.
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posted on
11/22/2008 1:10:10 PM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
To: mdittmar
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posted on
11/22/2008 1:12:44 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Admin Moderator: Something like a GRUE... on performance enhancing substances.)
To: mdittmar
He shoulda quit while he still had a head.
Rashid Rauf after he was arrested in 2006 ©AFP/File - Farooq Naeem
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posted on
11/22/2008 1:22:47 PM PST
by
rvoitier
To: rvoitier
I revel in the knowledge that the coward it dead, but I feel a little concerned about the plight of all the muzzie drag queens upset that their drag-shiek queen has passed onto hell.
I wonder who will be the next runway queen to meet a Hellfire while on the catwalk in Pakistan?
BUMP!!
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posted on
11/22/2008 1:34:53 PM PST
by
bayouranger
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
To: mdittmar
al-Misri loves al-Company, especially if they’re al-Dead.
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posted on
11/22/2008 2:06:58 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: mdittmar
Another Osama supporter bites the dust.
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posted on
11/22/2008 4:56:22 PM PST
by
Cheetahcat
(Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
Say it people....SAY IT!!!
BOOM, there it is...BOOM, there it is....BOOM, there it is!!!
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posted on
11/22/2008 10:46:47 PM PST
by
curling
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