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Was Bin Laden betrayed by his right-hand man? Al Qaeda's deputy leader 'led U.S. troops ...
Daily Mail ^ | 6th May 2011 | Paul Bentley

Posted on 05/06/2011 8:37:07 PM PDT by george76

Osama Bin Laden's deputy led U.S. troops to the Al Qaeda leader's hideout so he could take over the terrorist group, it was claimed today.

Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahiri, who has been touted widely as the man who will succeed Bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda, turned his back on his terrorist leader following a prolonged power struggle, according to a Saudi newspaper.

The plot to get rid of Bin Laden began when Zawahiri’s faction persuaded bin Laden to leave the protection of the tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Al Qaeda's Egyptian faction then hatched a plan to dispose of Saudi-born Bin Laden after irresolvable divisions developed between the terrorist group's top two men.

'The Egyptian faction of Al Qaeda is defacto running the organisation now and since he was taken ill in 2004 they have been trying to take full control,'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alzawahiri; aq; aymanalzawahiri; binladen; discord; egypt; eij; mi6; oneagainsttheother; terrorist; zawahiri
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1 posted on 05/06/2011 8:37:14 PM PDT by george76
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It’s plausible but on the other hand not a big pay off for the courier as things turned out. Our guys have gotten awfully good and they had tracked the courier before he could have led them anywhere.


2 posted on 05/06/2011 8:48:45 PM PDT by RitaOK
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I think it’s plausible. Especially since Obama has been doing so much to promote the terrorist takeover of Egypt.

Quid pro quo. Obama deposes Mubarak and gives Zawahiri Egypt, and Zawahiri gives Obama Bin Ladin.

And I believe the Pakistani government went along with it, since they did nothing to intervene when the Seals went into Bin Ladin’s compound. I’m not sure if they could have stopped the raid, but apparently they didn’t even try.


3 posted on 05/06/2011 8:50:54 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: RitaOK

The article states the courier knew he was being tracked, and did it on purpose. It was Z’s employee apparently. I don’t know if it is true, but this is what the article stated.


4 posted on 05/06/2011 8:52:24 PM PDT by HollyB
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And even if UBL wasn’t betrayed by Al Zawahiri, its good for the CIA to nonetheless sow dissension and distrust in their ranks.


5 posted on 05/06/2011 9:02:03 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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Just to conflate...But I have been hearing rumors over the last week, that someone was expecting to collect the $25 Mil Reward on UBL.


6 posted on 05/06/2011 9:05:50 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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I think this is probably true. The first suspicion always has to fall on the person who is most likely to benefit. In this case, the person most likely to benefit from bin Laden’s removal is Ayman al Zawahiri. He has to be very tired of waiting and his life is waning; time to make a change! Time to put Ayman al Zawahiri in the throne!


7 posted on 05/06/2011 9:09:49 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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The article states the courier knew he was being tracked, and did it on purpose. “ =================

Yes, I read that. The infighting may have been true or not. OBL didn’t seem to be the center of the universe as in the beginning so who knows how much of a threat he was to Z. Courier guy was between a rock and a hard place whether he knew or not that he was being tracked. If he knew he sure didn’t prepare with much defensive fire power, so he would have to go the martyr route. After all he was dead anyway with no where to run and no where to hide and no re-enforcements. I doubt if he knew. They just stayed too unprepared during all those months under observation.


8 posted on 05/06/2011 9:14:39 PM PDT by RitaOK
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It does not even matter if this is true or not since anything which undermines the Z Man and makes operatives question their superiors. Sow mistrust.


9 posted on 05/06/2011 9:20:30 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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And even if UBL wasn’t betrayed by Al Zawahiri, its good for the CIA to nonetheless sow dissension and distrust in their ranks.

From everything that has made its way into the media this week, I'd say that the disinformation campaign is in full gear, and is either there to flush people out and put them on the move so our drones/satellites/signals people catch them moving around, or to continue to to just create doubt in general. Or maybe it's not a disinformation campaign, maybe Bin Laden was sold out by his fellow Al Qaeda members, if you are Zawarhiri or anybody associated with him, you can't be too careful or too trusting ;-)
10 posted on 05/06/2011 9:30:46 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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I think this is all psyops. Kill OBL, and then disrupt AQ through creating suspicion and mistrust.


11 posted on 05/06/2011 9:32:22 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Cicero
Quid pro quo. Obama deposes Mubarak and gives Zawahiri Egypt, and Zawahiri gives Obama Bin Ladin.

And George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks months in advance. Give me a break, as crappy as this administration is, nobody in it wants an Egypt led by Al Qaeda, because of this little country that sits right next door to Egypt.

Maybe you have heard of it, it's called "Israel" and a lot of politicians in the US love it come election time.

I have an interesting idea. Maybe the people in Egypt got tired of living what amounted to a dictatorship complete with secret police for the last 30 years. I know that's a hard concept, but I imagine that even you would grow weary of living under an oppressive government.
12 posted on 05/06/2011 9:35:03 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Rembrandt; BIGLOOK; Fred Nerks; LucyT; null and void; Candor7

Ayman al Zawahiri was likely very tired of waiting


13 posted on 05/06/2011 9:38:20 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Daily Mail has some amazing reportage on this whole thing.

They were also the ones who reported that the April 25th Wikileaks dump made it clear (for those who waded through it), that the US was in possession of the full name of the courier (who just happened to be the guy who owned the “big house” in Abbottabad).

That could have triggered a stampede to take out OBL before he got wind of it.


14 posted on 05/06/2011 9:44:54 PM PDT by cookcounty (Resume item--- Barack Obama: Paid Spectator, US Senate, 2004-2008.)
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".But I have been hearing rumors over the last week, that someone was expecting to collect the $25 Mil Reward on UBL."

Yup. Dick Cheney.

15 posted on 05/06/2011 9:46:19 PM PDT by cookcounty (Resume item--- Barack Obama: Paid Spectator, US Senate, 2004-2008.)
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To: af_vet_rr

You may be right, but Obama is NO friend of Israel, believe me.


16 posted on 05/06/2011 9:46:57 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: cookcounty

Gary Faulkner Says He Helped Flush Bin Laden From Afghanistan.

Gary Faulkner said Wednesday he’d like one-quarter of the $25 million reward that was offered for hunting down bin Laden.

Faulkner was found last year wandering in the woods of northern Pakistan armed with a pistol, sword and night-vision goggles. He told Parkistani authorities that he was searching for bin Laden and wanted to decapitate him


17 posted on 05/06/2011 9:53:17 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Was Bin Laden betrayed by his right-hand man?

Perhaps so. And, just a simple side note, given the number of years in question, is that I wonder why Gen. Ratko Mladic doesn't get betrayed by his "right-hand" man.

18 posted on 05/06/2011 10:05:02 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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a psych op story to incite other members of al Q to take him out?
19 posted on 05/06/2011 10:07:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: PGR88

Yeh, they’ll never catch on...right??


20 posted on 05/06/2011 10:10:33 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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