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Officials: Al Qaeda No.3 Killed
ABC News ^ | Monday, May 31, 2010 | Jake Tapper and George Stephanopoulos

Posted on 05/31/2010 6:43:26 PM PDT by kristinn

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61 posted on 05/31/2010 11:04:58 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: SunkenCiv
Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid, known as Shaikh Sa'id al-Masri and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid –

...????....and we wonder why Barack Hussein Obama had 6 Social Security cards?

62 posted on 06/01/2010 12:00:24 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: kristinn

Its true confirmed by AQ in one of their internet forums with a statement.


63 posted on 06/01/2010 1:47:45 AM PDT by Dog (Trust but verify new posters ID's....)
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The UN was crying about drones strikes the other day.

The fact that his family was taken out is icing on the cake.

64 posted on 06/01/2010 2:27:36 AM PDT by csvset
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To: WHBates
I've heard Rush say it many times, the most dangerous job in the world is Al Qaeda #3. LOL

Yup, and the most dreaded job in the world is AQ #4 because you're soon to become #3 and then dead in short order.

65 posted on 06/01/2010 3:21:39 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
He might be hard to replace....

Apparently, he personally maintained a bunch of high-level relationships. Those groups don't operate like the US military, where senior officers might get rotated in and out periodically. They operate on long-term trust relationships, and unless this guy was actively grooming people to step in for him, his demise would leave those trust relationships dangling.

66 posted on 06/01/2010 4:35:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: kristinn

We really need to shoot for getting those #1 and #2 guys soon...

We’ve racked up an impressive string of #3 kills for a while...You’d think that those goobers in that organization would prefer to leave that particular job slot “open” since it appears to be an easy target for our side to nail...

“Achmed!!! We want to promote you to the #3 spot in the club...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go


67 posted on 06/01/2010 4:48:35 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: Onelifetogive

How long before Al Qaeda #3 job is posted on careerbuilder.com?

“...Position available for upper level management in a high risk global industry. Pay available in dinar or virgins. Frequent travel required.”


68 posted on 06/01/2010 5:53:38 AM PDT by johncocktoasten (Practicing asymetrical thread warfare against anti-Palin Trolls)
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To: johncocktoasten
Frequent travel required.

This often includes one's legs travelling off in one direction at a high speed, whole one's torso and arms are travelling in other directions.

69 posted on 06/01/2010 5:57:03 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (Flame away...)
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To: kristinn

I’d like to believe this, but who knows?

The eulogy could be an attempt to mislead.

There have been other times we have claimed someone is dead, and they show up later. So, why believe Al-Qaeda’s press release?

I beleive Bin Laden has beend dead since Dec. 2001, becasue there has never been a video of him since then. All of these audiotapes since then can not be verified as coming from Bin Laden.

What I want to know is why, after almost nine years, is the No. 2 guy still drawing breath?


70 posted on 06/01/2010 6:03:27 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: kristinn

finally, a memorial obammie will see fit to attend


71 posted on 06/01/2010 8:10:16 AM PDT by tm61 (somewhere in chicago, a ward is missing it's crook)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama has really stepped up the use of killer drones in attacks such as this. It seems that what used to be weapon of last resort is now a preferred option.

It really must piss them off. Blown to bits by a robot.

Good riddance and I hope one of your “virgins” gives you the clap.

72 posted on 06/01/2010 10:18:35 AM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Freddd
‘a US official told ABC News. “We have strong reason to believe that’s true’,

Was the same thing not said about the Taliban leader Mehsud in Pakistan? Too many people in high places are operating off rumors, vs. good intel.

73 posted on 06/01/2010 10:24:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA (RIP to the country I love...)
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To: kristinn
"Al-Masri was the group's chief operating officer,” the official said, “with a hand in everything from finances to operational planning. He was also the organization's prime conduit to Bin Ladin and Zawahiri.

If this is the case, wouldn't it have been better to capture him and torture the location of OBL and Zawahiri out of him right on the scene? Of course I guess Bin Obama would never have allowed that to happen, so it's a moot point.

74 posted on 06/01/2010 10:35:19 AM PDT by MissesBush (Stay angry--right through November)
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To: kristinn; All

Media bias report:

Today during Gibbs presser an Obama pole dancer in the media threw out a leading question. She stated, within her question, that ‘some experts’ are saying that this #3 is as good as getting Osama bin Laden or Zawahiri.

Typical crap from the whores in the media. During President Bush’s term, our troops killed dozens of AQ #3....yet the media always downplayed it and whined about not getting Osama. Suddenly... a #3 is better than getting #1 or #2 in an Obama Administration. Go figure...(eye roll)

With that said...God Bless Our Military! You guys ROCK!!


75 posted on 06/01/2010 3:42:26 PM PDT by penelopesire ("Did you plug the hole yet daddy?")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks, I don’t doubt it. For one thing, the Afghans have been in a civil war for these past thirty years, and there has literally not been a break all that time, merely some periods where it got down to a low simmer. Getting the Afghans to turn on their Arab occupiers seemed to work for a while, maybe this joker is the reason our progress slowed.

No one — least of all the members of the Party of Treason here in the US — thought the US had the staying power to wear down the terrorists through attrition. According to the leftist a-holes everywhere, US losses in Iraq were a tiny fraction of terrorist losses, and in Afghanistan with its “brutal Afghan winter” it has been well in excess of ten to one (probably closer to thirty to one).


76 posted on 06/01/2010 6:08:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: NormsRevenge

“light for the allies of Allah, to illuminate their path”

That is the translation of what he was saying on the posted video; what he doesn’t say is that it’s the light from the rocket motor of a Maverick missile! Another one down! YeeeeHAHHHHHH! ;)


77 posted on 06/02/2010 4:27:13 PM PDT by Old Student
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