Senior Al Qaeda Leader Killed In Drone Attack (breaking video report)

MSNBC ^ | Dec.10, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

"We are told by U.S. officials that a high ranking member of Al Qaeda, not Osama Bin Laden, has been killed today by a U.S. Predator Drone attack."

[hennie pennie]

Thank you for the kind words, Booboo -- now, since you are so knowledgable, would you care to explain to all of us why they do identify the victim's name?

Thank you very much.

Regards,
HP

[Senormechanico]

“For all of you and your flippant attitudes, this is serious business, if you don’t believe it enlist in the Marines, and stand a tour in those countries.This is not some SNL, this is the business of taking another life. Whether you like him or not.”

Boo freakin’ Hoo.

[hennie pennie]

Confirmation has come in, the name of the al Qaeda operative killed in the drone attack was Saleh al-Somal.

[hennie pennie]

The senior al Qaeda member killed was named Saleh al-Somal.

[Typelouder]

Wasn’t he just at the White House dinner? Why didn’t they just grab him then?

[hennie pennie]

Photographs and more information in another FR messagethread.

Pakistan Media: Drone Killed Qaeda's (Update - Kill has been Confirmed)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/11/world/main5967266.shtml?tag=topnews

(CBS) Sources tell CBS News the al Qaeda operative believed killed in a drone strike in Pakistan this week is Saleh al-Somali, who was in charge of external operations for the group. He was considered one of a half dozen top Qaeda operatives.

Saleh al-Somali's position as al Qaeda's external operations boss means he was in charge of plotting against the U.S. and Europe, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

32 posted on 12/11/2009 1:41:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405549/posts?page=32

[freepersup]

OK I’ll bite... you’re posting a different name than what appears in the most recent articles on the w.w.w. for Saleh al-Somali, what gives?

[hennie pennie]

Oh nooooooooooooo, my cut & paste didn't work right, did it, I left off the final "I" .....

So sorry, thank you for pointing it out to me.

[freepersup]

I honestly wasn’t trying to be the spell check police on this thread... I thought you might of had an inside track or source on these kind of things, what with the variance in the spelling. As Freud is reported to have said: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, so in this case, a mispelled word was just a mispelled word. ;O)

[rbosque]

Next...!

[hennie pennie]

Yep, it was just misspelled; however, I suspect that there probably are at least half a dozen "real" ways to spell his given name -- doesn't it always seem that way?

For instance, to al Qaida in Paaah-KEE-stan, this man was called "al-Somali" due to his country of origin; but in his birth country I seriously doubt that that was his surname.

It's one of the problems of tracking all this stuff online - first there are legitimate innocent misspellings, but then are so many variations.

I once set up google email news alerts for Doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri, and I had to set up over half a dozen because his nameS - plural, have so many possible spellings.

[hennie pennie]

LOL, that’s the spirit!!

[freepersup]

Spelling the names correctly is certainly challenging; pronouncing them correctly is entirely another matter. How the military and law agencies keep the names straight is beyond me.

[The Comedian]

The senior al Qaeda member killed was named Saleh al-Somal.

Sionara al Sombitch.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[hennie pennie]

roflol -- now that was funny !