Algeria kills top al-Qaeda Leader

Subtle was never my strong suit. I considered an M60 a good sidearm and my negotiating skills with local village chiefs was always enhanced by a few F-100 loaded with nape and snake orbiting overhead.

8 in SP howitzer made a great hooch defense weapon, too.

"A country devastated by the bloodlust of the jihadis."

I worry about Turkey and Pakistan 'sliding' in the same direction as Algeria. (recent elections)

One of my many descriptions of these thugs that I will allow myself to post on Free Republic.

If we didn't have all the PC mediots covering the reality of these murdering goat humping thugs, all of America and the world would know about their terrible reality.

Thanks and have a good day!

I think Turkey's safe because the military is determined to remain secularist.

Pakistan is iffy; despite popular misconceptions, there is a very strong strain of jihadism in the military.

Putin's words in Moscow did not refer to Pakitan's military in the singular; he used the word 'armies' implying different corps commanders with competing loyalties.

"Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed Alwan," alias "Abu Mohammed"

Does it really matter? They all sound alike anyway.

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the islamofascists in algeria had a preference for slitting the throats of women and children....i'd always wonder why i never heard a peep from the UN or any other civilized country. i guess everyone was too busy slamming the US and israel.

Ok then! (Move along....nothing more to see here....) ;-P

By George, they know the evil, don't they.

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Or perhaps, too busy bombing Serbia.

I find it interesting that none of these countries had any interest in killing al-Qaeda until Bush's "you're with us or agin' us speech.

Maybe, you could send your list to Mullah Da$$hole and the Goron so they can update their scorecards!

Can't you just see Rumsfeld, et al, sitting around the conference table.

"Okay, this week we waxed 2 of the top twenty Abu motheroos and caught another two. Let's hook the two live ones up to a little versed for a few weeks, release the info one body at time on the decomposing ones, and guys, nothing gets out until Tom or Al starts whining about losing, okay?"

"After we dribble out the corpse info, we'll squeeze the secrets out of the ones we have plugged into the battery and use that to get a few more."

"If this weren't such serious work, I'd be inclined to think that playing this out is sort of fun."

"Putin's words in Moscow did not refer to Pakitan's military in the singular; he used the word 'armies' implying different corps commanders with competing loyalties."

Somewhere down the road, I expect India will be given the 'nod' to resolve the Pakistan problem including the nuclear aspect.

"Abu Mohammed al-Masri

This guy is on your list, is this him?"

I don't think this is him because the name construction (al-Masri is an alternate form of al-Misri or "the Egyptian" and the article says that this guy is a Yemeni). A possible candidate would be Abu Leith al-Liby, who oversees al-Qaeda's operations in Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, but here again al-Liby's surname would seem to indicate that he is Libyan, not Yemen.

"I've been carrying al-Masri as an Afghan Training Camp commander. I'm not saying you're wrong or I'm right - just that we may differ."

Al-Masri served as the overseer for several Afghan camps charged with processing African recruits (al-Qaeda splits its trainees up according to which language they spoke, but you probably already know that). He also acts as the coordinator between al-Qaeda and various affiliate groups in Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan, as well as coordinating recruiting and support operations in the latter country. I believe he survived Operation Enduring Freedom intact and is widely suspected to have fled Afghanistan to the UAE and from there to Ras Komboni in Somalia, where al-Qaeda maintains recruiting centers, terrorist training camps, and propoganda materials. He was largely responsible for coordinating the transfer of over $300,000,000 of the group's hard assets to Sudan with the assistance of the Russian mob.

So yeah, he ran terrorist training camps, but he's a LOT bigger fish than that.

Here's my own list for comparison:

SHURA MAJLIS

These are the first-tier guys and the actual members of al-Qaeda's board of directors. Any one of them is a possible successor to Osama bin Laden.

Name: Osama bin Laden
Function: Emir-General
Status: Unknown, possibly killed at Tora Bora in December 2001, now believed to be at large

Name: Ayman al-Zawahiri
Function: Second-in-Command/Egyptian Islamic Jihad Emir-General
Status: At Large

Name: Mohammed Atef
Function: Supreme Military Commander
Status: Dead

Name: Abu Zubaydah
Function: Global Operations Chief
Status: Apprehended

Name: Rifa Ahmed Taha
Function: Gamaa al-Islamiyyah Secretary-General
Status: At Large

Name: Thirwat Salah Shirhata
Function: Egyptian Islamic Jihad Deputy Emir
Status: At Large

Name: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Function: Middle East Operations Chief
Status: Apprehended

Name: Abu Musab Zarqawi
Function: Former Southeast Asian Operations Chief, currently Global Operations Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Zubair al-Haili
Function: North African Operations Chief
Status: Apprehended

Name: Tawfiq Attash Khallad
Function: South Asian Operations Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Mohammed al-Masri
Function: East African Operations Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Zaid Khayr
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large

Name: Mohammed Salah
Function: Senior Explosive Expert, Central African Operations Chief
Status: Dead

Name: Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad
Function: Balkans Operations Chief
Status: Dead

Name: Saif al-Adel
Function: Former second-in-command of al-Qaeda's military, currently Supreme Military Commander
Status: At Large

Name: Amin al-Haq
Function: Shura Majlis Security Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (aka "Mr. Mauritania")
Function: Theologian
Status: Formerly believed dead, now believed to be at large

TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP COMMANDERS

These are the guys who supervise the training, indoctrination, and assignment of al-Qaeda operatives worldwide. They also seperate all recruits into four categories: mujahideen (foot soldiers), shahideen (suicide bombers), takfiri (sleepers), and ansar (support personnel). Each category has its own version of the "Afghan Guide to Jihad," al-Qaeda's training manual (all four versions combined are roughly 3,000 pages in length) that provides instruction to recruits for just about any situation imaginable.

Name: Sheikh Ibn al-Liby
Function: Terrorist Training Camp Commander
Status: Apprehended

Name: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi
Function: Terrorist Training Camp Commander
Status: Apprehended

Name: Omar Bandon
Function: Terrorist Training Camp Commander
Status: At Large

THE FINANCIAL COMMITTEE

This is the committee that oversees al-Qaeda's legitimate and illegitimate businesses, charities, drug smuggling, ect.

Name: Sheikh Saeed (Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi?)
Function: Head of the Financial Committee
Status: At Large

Name: Mohammed Jamal Khalifa
Function: Financier and envoy to the Saudi Bin Laden Group
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Jafar al-Jaziri
Function: Financier
Status: Dead

Name: Abu Salah al-Yemeni
Function: Financier
Status: Dead

Name: Abdul Rahim Riyadh
Function: Financier
Status: Apprehended

Name: Ahmed Saeed al-Kadr
Function: Financier
Status: At Large

Name: Hamza al-Qatari
Function: Financier
Status: Dead

MEDIA COMMITTEE

This the group that manages and updates the websites, oversees the E-Jihad, and is responsible for all statements by the al-Qaeda leadership. Not a lot of declassified info on this one.

Name: Suleiman Abu Ghaith
Function: Spokesman
Status: At Large

Name: Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri
Function: Spokesman/Recruiter
Status: At Large

Name: Sheikh Omar al-Bakri
Function: Spokesman
Status: At Large

Name: Sheikh Abu Qatada al-Philisteeni
Function: Spokesman
Status: Apprehended

WMD COMMITTEE

Al-Qaeda employs a number of Muslim scientists of various nationalities to assist it in procuring as well as manufacturing the necessary materials to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

Name: Midhat Mursi
Function: Top scientist for nuclear weapons research
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Khabab
Function: Biological and chemical weapons expert
Status: At Large

Name: Assadalah Abdul Rahman
Function: Weapons of Mass Destruction Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Bashir al-Yemeni
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large

MILITARY COMMITTEE

These are the definite guys to watch out for. Most have a great deal of combat experience either from serving in Arab militaries or else from fighting in Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, or the Philippines.

Name: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Function: Martyrdom Battalion Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Abd al-Aziz al-Jamal
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large

Name: Bilal bin Marwan
Function: Arabian Sea Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi
Function: Yemen Commander-in-Chief
Status: Dead

Name: Mohsen al-Fadli
Function: Kuwait Commander-in-Chief
Status: Apprehended

Name: Essid Sami ben Khemais
Function: Southern Europe Commander-in-Chief
Status: Apprehended

Name: Saqar al-Jadawi
Function: Unknown
Status: At Large

Name: Mohammed Omar Abdel Rahman
Function: Military Commander
Status: At Large

Name: Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman
Function: Military Commander
Status: Apprehended

Name: Abu Walid
Function: Military Commander
Status: At Large

Name: Abdel Hari al-Iraqi
Function: Afghanistan Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Abu Leith al-Lybi
Function: Algeria/Libya Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Shamil Basayev
Function: Chechnya Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large

Name: Amir ibn al-Khattab
Function: Dagestan Commander-in-Chief
Status: Dead

Name: Hanbali
Function: Indonesia Commander-in-Chief
Status: At Large

Here are a list of al-Qaeda's non-Afghan terrorist training facilities that I've been able to compile and need help in updating:

Location: Ljabinot, Albania
Status: Active

Location: Tropoja, Albania
Status: Active

Location: Kuks, Albania
Status: Active

Location: Bajram Curi, Albania
Status: Active

Location: Serzhen-Yurt, Chechnya
Status: Active

Location: Merkhiyat, Sudan
Status: Active

Location: al-Qutanynah, Sudan
Status: Active

Location: Jabel al-Awliya, Sudan
Status: Active

Location: Shendi, Sudan
Status: Active

Location: Soba, Sudan (medical training)
Status: Active

Location: Sejara, Sudan
Status: Active

Location: Ras Komboni, Somalia
Status: Active

Location: Salman Pak, Iraq
Status: Active

Location: Abubakar, the Philippines (somewhere in Mindanao, Moro Islamic Liberation Front)
Status: Active

Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia (Jemaah Islamiyyah)
Status: Active

Most of this information is taken from Rohan Gunaratna's "Inside Al-Qaeda."

BTW, it's entirely possible that this Abu Mohammed character could have been al-Qaeda's ambassador to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat and the GIA, much the same way that Omar al-Farouk was al-Qaeda's ambassador in Southeast Asia to the Kuala Lumpur Mujahideen, MILF, Abu Sayyaf, and Jemaah Islamiyyah.

Great scorecard thanks for sharing!

I wonder why Mullah Omar isn't shown or do you keep a seperate scorecard for the Talibums?

The people who are really good at protecting and getting good Intel live by the Need to Know Rule.

So they save some of these used up al Qaeda thugs or dead ones for releases when Da$$hole or the Goron need to know. Of course these releases come after the libs have used their vile mouths and will really look stupid when this stuff is released.

The IV Versed used on these goat humping clymers these past months could probably float one of our carriers.

Great work and a great list!

Hey guys, look at this great list of al qaeda goat humpers and a lot of has been and now former al qaeda goat humpers compiled by Angelus!

Great research!

I bookmarked it....thanks!

Appreciate the info. I knew what "al-Iraqi" or "al-Libi" meant, but now I know "al-Masri" means from Egypt.