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Source: Drone Strike Kills Top Al Qaeda Cleric in Yemen
Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/2/13

Posted on 02/13/2013 2:38:14 PM PST by Eleutheria5

A drone strike in the eastern Yemeni province of Shabwa last month killed the top religious cleric for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a source close to the group said on Tuesday.

"A drone strike had targeted Sheikh Adel al-Abab's vehicle but he escaped and fled to a mountainous region where a raid by another drone killed him immediately," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Abab had graduated from the Dawa Islamic studies center, in Sana'a and had served as the top religious cleric for AQAP.

American drone strikes against Al-Qaeda terrorists are frequent in Yemen, home of the network believed by the United States to be the deadliest and most active of the jihadi terrorists.

AQAP is led by Nasser al-Wuhayshi, who in July 2011 reaffirmed the group's allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of the worldwide Al-Qaeda network since the killing in May of its founder, Osama bin Laden.

U.S. drones strikes in Yemen nearly tripled in 2012 compared with 2011, from 18 to 53, according to the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: adelabab; alqaeda; alqaedayemen; aqap; drone; dronestrike; gwot; uav; yemen
Spring is in the air, along with the sweet smell of squished snake.
1 posted on 02/13/2013 2:38:23 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5
Bush would have been accused of inciting muslim hatred around the world.

Seems lefties love Obama's Bush Doctrine. ...kill 'em there, not here.

2 posted on 02/13/2013 2:47:32 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Eleutheria5
If I had a nickle for every "top", "important", "general", (etc.) all queerda "leader", "commander", "planner" (etc.) ... I'd OWN the middle east by now.
3 posted on 02/13/2013 2:50:11 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh waiter! Another 72 virgins please!


4 posted on 02/13/2013 2:51:56 PM PST by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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To: Eleutheria5

Again?.........


5 posted on 02/13/2013 2:52:17 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Eleutheria5

... and if any American citizens were killed as collateral damage, “at this late date, what difference does it make?”


6 posted on 02/13/2013 3:13:50 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Why does the title start with “Source:” What is that supposed to mean?


7 posted on 02/13/2013 3:37:28 PM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

Forgot to mount a camera on the missile they fired up his a@#, but somebody confirmed the kill.


8 posted on 02/13/2013 3:47:46 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: MissesBush

Uh...we regret to inform you, sir, that due to the divers holy wars being waged and missiles and drones and such...well, sir, all we’ve got left are...well...technical virgins.


9 posted on 02/13/2013 3:50:01 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, again? It seems like we kill the top Alqueda in Yemen every two weeks. We must be working down the list a ways.


10 posted on 02/13/2013 3:51:26 PM PST by 2big2fail
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To: Eleutheria5

Do religious clerics for Al-Qaeda get virgins?


11 posted on 02/13/2013 5:24:20 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: Eleutheria5

“And they’re goats.”


12 posted on 02/13/2013 8:42:22 PM PST by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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To: MissesBush

LOL. Male goats?


13 posted on 02/14/2013 12:28:13 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: existentially_kuffer

No. They get the highly skilled, veteran whores who know every trick there is. It’s the poor slobs who die young and stupid who get the virgins.

What’s so great about doing virgins throughout eternity anyway? At some point it must be annoying to have to bust the cherry all over again, and listen to the same chick go through the same pain and pleasure routine, even though you’ve bedded her a thousand times.


14 posted on 02/14/2013 12:32:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Yes, of course. The jihadi closet cases don’t like women.


15 posted on 02/15/2013 3:12:50 PM PST by MissesBush (The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)
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