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No. 2 Al Qaeda leader ("rock star") reportedly targeted in Pakistan, as drone strikes escalate.
FoxNews.com ^ | Fox News/ AP

Posted on 06/05/2012 1:51:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

Abu Yahya Al-Libi is a rock star in the jihadist world. With his videos and lectures going viral on the Web, he is Al Qaeda's Mr. YouTube.

On Monday, the top Al Qaeda operative reportedly was the intended target of the latest U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, strikes that have been increasingly unpopular among Pakistanis but successful in recent years at taking out terrorist leaders.

The latest strike reportedly killed eight militants in the tribal region of North Waziristan. U.S. and Pakistani government sources told Reuters that Al-Libi was the intended target, but they could not confirm whether he had been hit.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuyahyaallibi; alqaeda; drone; pakistan; terrorist; troglodyte; waronterror; wot
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He's called a "rock star" in the article? More like "the troglodyte from hell"! Blow them all up! Go pound sand, Pakis! 0bummer's playing with his "kill list cards", again.
1 posted on 06/05/2012 1:51:17 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: carriage_hill

Hopefully a lot of jihadis will get killed by end of year. Because if Romney wins, all of a sudden these drone attacks will be a big political problem for the president come January 20th. Stinkin’ Dem/MSM hypocrites.


2 posted on 06/05/2012 3:14:28 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: carriage_hill
On Monday, the top Al Qaeda operative reportedly was the intended target of the latest U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, strikes that have been increasingly unpopular among Pakistanis but successful in recent years at taking out terrorist leaders.

But he claim Bush had Guantánamo Bay helped recruit terrorist and damage US image.

It looks he topping that without even getting any information from dead terrorist.

3 posted on 06/05/2012 3:17:41 AM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: carriage_hill
U.S. and Pakistani government sources told Reuters that Al-Libi was the intended target

STUPID!

4 posted on 06/05/2012 3:24:20 AM PDT by grobdriver
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To: dirtboy

Bush caught hell for it, 0bummer gets away with it almost unscathed, and Romney would be lambasted, too if he continued it. Dem/MSM are way beyond hypocrites, IMO. They’re in lockstep with al Queerda jihadis.


5 posted on 06/05/2012 3:25:31 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: scooby321

Zero recidivism, but zero intel.


6 posted on 06/05/2012 3:26:48 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: grobdriver

“Sources” need to be ***silenced***.


7 posted on 06/05/2012 3:28:11 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: carriage_hill
Hovercat will save the day!
8 posted on 06/05/2012 3:37:57 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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To: carriage_hill

Don’t you understand? Those are Bushes cards. He made them with Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld at a board meeting at Halliburton. :)

Can you imagine the god awful hoopla this would create if Bush is playing this “Pick a card, any card” game. The MSM would have impeached him.

God, please make the MSM fail and go away. What’s that? They are failing? Thank you.

I’m so very sick and tired of these MSM people even tho I no longer let them into my life anymore or ever again.


9 posted on 06/05/2012 3:48:17 AM PDT by RacerX1128 (Cornered in CA)
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To: carriage_hill

Hopefully he lay beneath the ground, among the rocks as we speak.


10 posted on 06/05/2012 3:49:43 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: dirtboy; carriage_hill
Hopefully a lot of jihadis will get killed by end of year. Because if Romney wins, all of a sudden these drone attacks will be a big political problem for the president come January 20th. Stinkin’ Dem/MSM hypocrites.

Exactly. As of May 2011 (not 2012, 2011) President Obama had authorized 193 Pakistan drone strikes since he took office. That number is over 4 times those authorized by President Bush - in his TWO terms (source: New America Foundation). I only dare guess what the current ratio between Obama vs Bush drone strikes is. Yet, the only opposition to the drone strikes have been from the terrorists and the Pakistani government. US media has been amazingly quiet regarding the drone strikes ...even though President Bush got criticized quite a bit over them.

Some would call that double standards, others hypocrisy. I would throw in lack of professionalism and gross bias. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander, especially considering one person was criticized for something that is magnitudes lower than that for the other.

Thus what you say is true. If Romney wins the Presidency there will be an immediate and robust shift in media attitude towards continued drone attacks in Pakistan. Even though the drone attacks do work, and work well, they will suddenly become 'wrong.' After all, if Bush conducting strikes was wrong, and Obama in less than 2 years does four times more of them than Bush in 2 TERMS with no real complaints, then that establishes nigh-scientific proof of media bias. A lot of times people claim bias but can't back it up with numbers and figures, but this is as clear as anything that bias exists.

11 posted on 06/05/2012 3:52:08 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: carriage_hill
No. 2 Al Qaeda leader ("rock star") reportedly targeted in Pakistan, as drone strikes escalate.

They're all "number two" to me...

12 posted on 06/05/2012 4:09:25 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: carriage_hill

And we lose another source of intel.
The Europeans laugh at us.
The middle East and Far East hate us.

Situation is Grim


13 posted on 06/05/2012 4:17:28 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: carriage_hill

Bet we get to see the body this time. Probably in October.


14 posted on 06/05/2012 4:30:52 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: carriage_hill

None of this tripe was evident during BushII. They find a camel humper... they crown him and kill him... obamao takes a bow. This is getting old. Go back to killing all of them and keep it off the news for political gain. Never happen... obamao is nothing but lies and propaganda. He is NOTHING without those tools.

LLS


15 posted on 06/05/2012 4:31:19 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Eye of Unk

Y.I.K.E.S!


16 posted on 06/05/2012 4:56:36 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: scooby321

I’m wondering if it’s (no intel gained) intentional, now?


17 posted on 06/05/2012 5:01:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: spetznaz; Steven Tyler; jersey117

I’m wondering if it’s intentional, now, that we aren’t getting any intel, and just killing the trogs?


18 posted on 06/05/2012 5:05:49 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: carriage_hill

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19 posted on 06/05/2012 5:06:09 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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To: RacerX1128

Roger that, bigtime.


20 posted on 06/05/2012 5:08:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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