Posted on 09/15/2011 1:57:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A senior al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, has been killed, say senior US officials.
There has been no independent confirmation of the death, which officials said happened in the Waziristan tribal region.
The US frequently carries out drone air strikes against suspected militants hiding out in the volatile area.
Three weeks ago, the US said it had killed al-Qaeda's suspected chief of operations, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.
The media are denied access to the area, making it difficult to confirm such claims.
The US said Shahri has been killed earlier this week and that his death "removes a key threat inside Pakistan".
He had played a "key operational and administrative role" in al-Qaeda and had worked closely with the Taliban to carry out attacks in Pakistan, said officials.
The death would "further degrade al-Qaeda's ability to recover" from the death of Abd al-Rahman, they said, as Shahri had been considered a contender to take on some of the dead leader's duties.
A US official told the BBC that the death represents a blow to the core of al-Qaeda in the country.
The US does not routinely confirm drone operations and there has been no comment as yet from Pakistani officials.
However, correspondents says that Arab newspapers had already reported on the killing of Shahri, saying his relatives in Saudi Arabia had received an anonymous phone call to inform them had been killed in a US drone strike.
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Why is it the media goes insane with disgust when we take prisoners who are at war with us and feed, clothe, shelter, and support their religious freedoms, but yet when we push a button from three miles high and six thousand miles away to vaporize them, that's not worth getting upset about?
Wait until american municipalities get some of these toys for their SWAT teams. It’s just a matter of scale and time.
My iron-clad resolution for any Muslim: "I don't care what you say, what platitudes you claim to believe. You all had the chance to condemn 911 when it happened, and all I heard was crickets. And the few who stood up said "Oh, it was wrong....but...."
Your petty faux religion says it is just fine with your baal-god to lie to me. Why the hell should I ever believe one damn word you say?"
Great post.
He was No. 11 on Saudi Arabia’s top-85 most wanted terror suspects, his name is Osama Hamoud Gharman Al-Shihri.
Very good news.
Gotta get Z and the AQ house of cards collapses.
He's hiding out real good so far.. but one of these days..
Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Pakistan: Pentagon
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-leader-zawahiri-pakistan-pentagon-204713911.html
AFP – Wed, 14 Sep, 2011
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is still in Pakistan, a Pentagon official said Wednesday, following the release of a video in which Osama bin Laden’s successor blasts the United States.
“We have no information to indicate that he is anywhere else than in Pakistan,” Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
Zawahiri, a veteran Egyptian militant and long-time Al-Qaeda number two, took over the jihadist network after bin Laden was killed in a clandestine raid by US Navy commandos in Pakistan on May 2.
I’m sure he looks under his bed every night when he turns in. One of these days he will have some late night visitors.
Yes, I say, lets build robot/drone ground forces. Then we can put fewer of our young guys in harms way -- just as UAVs are saving soldier's lives now.
AND wars will be over much faster. An army of indestructible robots entering a hostile city -- able to see and shoot behind and around walls -- might just cause the enemy to give up--like defeated enemies used to do in past wars.
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