Posted on 03/17/2010 6:31:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
The counterterrorism official said Hussein al-Yemeni was believed killed in a strike in Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Drone strikes in Pakistan's border region, largely conducted by the CIA, have escalated in recent months, proving an effective way to target al-Qaida and Taliban leaders hiding in the rugged mountainous border. While Pakistani officials have criticized the strikes, it is widely believed that Islamabad privately supports the attacks and works with the U.S. to provide intelligence.
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Why send a Hallmark card from Hillary when ya can send a HeLLFiRe from Obama?
Sounds to me like a good reason enough to light up a fine cigar!
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "KEY AL QAEDA OPERATIVE KILLED IN U.S. STRIKE IN NORTH WAZIRISTAN" (SNIPPET: "Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, who is also known as Ghazwan al Yemeni, was killed..." SNIPPET: "Three other al Qaeda operatives, identified as Abu Jameelah al Kuwaiti Hamed al Aazimi, who served with slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi; Abu Zahra al Maghrebi; and Akramah al Bunjabi al Pakistani, were killed with Hussami...") (March 17, 2010)
INTERNET HAGANAH.com: "MORE 'LAST WORDS' FROM THE SHAHEED ABU DUJANA AL-KHORASANI" (SNIPPET: "New video and transcripts have been released by as-Sahab, who are to be commended for making the most of this opportunity. The focus is on the Jordanian intelligence services and provides al-Khorasani's self-serving account of how he first became an informant, and then turned on his handlers. As such, it has some redeeming intelligence value.") (February 28, 2010)
SFGATE.com (AP): "Intelligence Official: US Believes Mehsud is Dead" (SNIPPET: "Neither Pakistan nor the U.S. has officially confirmed the death of Mehsud...") (February 4, 2010, 4:21pm)
NPR.org: "AL-QAIDA EXPERT MONITORS JIHADIST WEB POSTINGS" (SNIPPET: "Islamic extremist Web sites are full of commentary on two men viewed as heroes: the CIA suicide bomber and the Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a plane. Al-Qaida expert Jarret Brachman talks to Deborah Amos about jihadist activities on the Internet. Brachman describes who's posting, and who's reading such tributes on the Web.") (January 14, 2010)
ALL THINGS COUNTERTERRORISM - blog: "Abu dujana al Khorasani" by Leah Farrall, Australia (SNIPPET: "Thus far there is one particularly interesting Abu Dujana from 2002 who I’m looking at. Having said that there were quite a few with that user name. But why I’m looking is that I strongly suspect that al Khorasani's history goes back further on the forums (and possibly in the real world) than what is being reported.") (Posted January 19, 2010)
TOWNHALL.com: "FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS..." -Column by Oliver North (SNIPPET: "Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army physician, turned for counsel before, according to police, opening fire, killing 13 people and wounding more than two dozen others at Fort Hood on Nov. 5. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal, the Jordanian physician who blew himself up at the CIA base in Afghanistan last month, was a member of Yemen-based Hisbah.net, an online radical Islamic forum. Now we know that 55,000 Americans currently are "visiting, living or studying in Yemen."") (January 15, 2010)
INTERNET HAGANAH.com: "GREAT MOMENTS IN JIHADI BIGOTRY" (SNIPPET: "Witness these offerings from "Asadullah Alshishani", an allegedly Chechen-American jihadi. First, his poem dedicated to "Our James Bond" Abu Dujana al-Khorasani.") (January 10, 2010)
JARRET BRACHMAN.net - blog: "Abu Dujana now for Kindle??" (SNIPPET: "As an aside, one of the new compilations released of Abu Dujana's writings (this one tops out at 45 essays) now has them in .DOC, .PDF, .DJVU, .EPUB and yes, .MOBI for Kindle. Talk about finding ways to make this material accessible!") (January 10, 2010)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "CIA SUICIDE BOMBER APPEARS ON TAPE WITH LEADER OF PAKISTANI TALIBAN" by Bill Roggio (SNIPPET: ""We will never forget the blood of our emir Baitullah Mehsud," Balawi said. "We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside.") (January 9, 2010, 11:07 am)
News.Yahoo.com (AP): "CIA BOMBER'S WIFE SAYS WAR MUST GO ON AGAINST U.S." by Selcan Hacaoglu (SNIPPET: "Bayrak also said Friday, "I think the war against the United States must go on." Turkish police questioned and released Bayrak on Thursday. But she says police confiscated a book she had written called "Osama bin Laden the Che Guevera of the East.") (January 8, 7:24 am ET)
JARRET BRACHMAN.net - blog: "ON JIHADIST PUNDITRY: Part 1" (SNIPPET: "At least one irony with this list is that Abu Dujana seems to ignore many of his own self-articulated metrics for effective and objective punditry. He relies heavily on exaggeration, rhetorical games, ad hominem attacks and bravado. Take this excerpt. for instance: You are welcome come to the Al-Hesbah cafe.. go to their menu and pick today's dish: -Roasted Humvee with sauce of human remains. -Exploded tank by an IED with no survivors. -Or a pastry made of Americans' brains taken out with snipers bullets. This is the kind of metaphorical writing that Abu Dujana al-Khorasani, the man we now suspect to be Himam Khalil Mohammad, promulgated online.") (January 6, 2010, 8:52 am)
JIHAD WATCH.org (NBC News): "JORDANIAN DOCTOR WAS CIA INFORMANT WHO KILLED EIGHT PEOPLE IN JIHAD ATTACK" (SNIPPET: "According to Western intelligence officials, the perpetrator was Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, 36, an al-Qaida sympathizer from the town of Zarqa, which is also the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant Islamist responsible for several devastating attacks in Iraq.") (January 4, 2010)
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ABU DUJANA AL-KHORASANI: FROM FORUM TO MARTYRDOM
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | 10 January 2010 | Aaron Weisburd
Posted on January 10, 2010 4:59:28 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Some comments
• I have to assume that al-Balawi was thoroughly debriefed by al-Qaida before being sent on this mission, and I’m surprised no one has sought to correlate his “infiltration” of al-Qaida with Abu Yahya al-Libi’s book released over the summer: “Guidance on the Ruling of the Muslim Spy”
• See also: Al Qaida: Western Spies Multiply “Like Locusts”.”
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ACLU sues gov’t over drones
Politico ^
Posted on March 16, 2010 5:09:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
ACLU sues gov’t over drones
By JEN DIMASCIO | 3/16/10 7:14 PM EDT
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government Tuesday to learn the use of unmanned drones for targeted killings by the military and CIA.
“In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings,” the ACLU said in a statement, announcing its action.
The nonprofit civil liberties group filed initial Freedom of Information Act requests with the Defense, Justice and State departments and with the Central Intelligence Agency on Jan. 13. Only the CIA responded, and the ACLU is pursuing that request with an appeal to the agency.
The military and intelligence communities have increasingly relied on Predator and Reaper unmanned drones to capture video imagery and launch deadly missile strikes, particularly lately in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. The Pentagon, especially, continues to purchase more and more drones each year.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34529.html#ixzz0iO6u2229
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Protecting Terrorists in this country isn’t enough for the ACLU?
Hopefully this hit is soon confirmed by our side.
Usually a few days later, we’ll get a confirmation or no go from the DoD. This is a big hit so they are a little more cautious.
Hate to see a perfectly good armament go to waste on a bunch of peeons.. but we take what we can get.. until the ACLU sues to take away the birds of death raining hellfire on ‘hot’ militant compounds. bastards.
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