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A CIA-operated drone strike on a suspected militant hideout last weekend killed one of FBI's most-wanted terrorists who had been involved in 1986 hijacking of an U.S. airline, a senior Pakistani offical said. Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin who had a bounty of $5 million on his head, was killed in the strike in North Waziristan on Sunday, along with another Jordanian who was identified as Mahmoud Zaydan, the official said. Mr. Rahim was released from a Pakistani prison a few years ago after a conviction for his role in the Sept. 5, 1986, hijacking of...

In the fall of 2002 Iraq crossed an unacceptable threshold, supplying operational weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to bin Laden's terrorists. These developments were confirmed to the Western intelligence services after several terrorists -- graduates of WMD training programs -- were captured in Israel, Chechnya, Turkey, and France, along with documents related to their activities. On the basis of pure threat analysis, the United States should have gone to war against Iraq, as well as its partners Syria and Iran, in fall 2002. By then there was already unambiguous evidence indicating the urgency of defusing the imminent danger posed by...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/23/02 Operation Northern Watch, Baghdad, Iraq, Tahir Haboush, Sabri al-Banna, Abu Nidal, 'baby milk factory', Qurna, Berlin, Iraqi embassy ============= Over Iraq =================== Over Iraq, in Operation Northern Watch, at this moment north of the 36th parallel, F-16CJs are flown by heroes of the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron. ============= Baghdad Security and Intelligence =============== In Baghdad, Iraq, showing the end of terrorist Abu Nidal, Iraqi intelligence officer Tahir Haboush holds up what he claims is Nidal's forged Yemeni passport, and several photos of weapons and the dead perp. Haboush claimed Abu Nidal...