Al Qaeda announced on its website that four of its commanders died last week in Pakistan but didn't say how they were killed but we ALL know it was that air strike that happened inside Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. The major prize killed in this airstrike is Abu Khabab al-Masri who was one of the top targets of the U.S. with a $5 million bounty on his head. Abu Khabab al-Masri is also suspected of being the mastermind and trainer of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole, years ago. Here's the details of this new report out of Breitbart:
I said it last week that nearly all of the U.S. airstrikes in Pakistan have targeted al Qaeda personnel - that it has been a clever strategy to keep the Pakistani government off guard. If the U.S. were to be going after Taliban, it would seem an extension of the Afghanistan War but in essence, the actions inside of Pakistan can be claimed to be the world effort against al Qaeda.
Either way you look at it, this is fantastic news and at the same time, proves further just how inundated Pakistan has become with the foreigners of al Qaeda. Every single one of these four commanders killed in the Pakistan air strike are from Egypt.
One other thing I would like to point out...the Democrats in America have long used this paper thin argument that the U.S. intervention in Iraq is what actually brought al Qaeda and foreign terrorists to Iraq so what will the Dems say about Pakistan? The U.S. is not in Pakistan, we are not at war with Pakistan yet this country has been flooded with al Qaeda and foreign terrorists. What I would say is this - that Pakistan right now is the focal point of world terror - the planning of world wide attacks is going on there, the massing of offensive attacks on Afghanistan is taking place there and that 90% of the world's top wanted terrorist leaders are in sanctuary in Pakistan.
The time for an ultimatum from not only the West but more moderate Arab states has come - Pakistan simply cannot handle the situation they find themselves in and it is high time they allowed a gutting of their country. Pakistan is lucky at the moment that most of these terrorists and terrorist leaders are confined to the NorthWest Frontier provinces and the time is now to gut that area.
Al-Qaida confirmed in a Web statement Sunday the death of a senior commander known as a top explosives and poisons expert, who is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week.
The statement said Abu Khabab al-Masri and three other commanders were killed. It did not give details on when or how they were killed, but Pakistani authorities have said they believe al-Masri died in an American airstrike last Monday on a compound near the Afghan border.
Pakistani officials have said six people were killed in that strike, in the country's lawless South Waziristan tribal region.
I said it last week that nearly all of the U.S. airstrikes in Pakistan have targeted al Qaeda personnel - that it has been a clever strategy to keep the Pakistani government off guard. If the U.S. were to be going after Taliban, it would seem an extension of the Afghanistan War but in essence, the actions inside of Pakistan can be claimed to be the world effort against al Qaeda.
Either way you look at it, this is fantastic news and at the same time, proves further just how inundated Pakistan has become with the foreigners of al Qaeda. Every single one of these four commanders killed in the Pakistan air strike are from Egypt.
One other thing I would like to point out...the Democrats in America have long used this paper thin argument that the U.S. intervention in Iraq is what actually brought al Qaeda and foreign terrorists to Iraq so what will the Dems say about Pakistan? The U.S. is not in Pakistan, we are not at war with Pakistan yet this country has been flooded with al Qaeda and foreign terrorists. What I would say is this - that Pakistan right now is the focal point of world terror - the planning of world wide attacks is going on there, the massing of offensive attacks on Afghanistan is taking place there and that 90% of the world's top wanted terrorist leaders are in sanctuary in Pakistan.
The time for an ultimatum from not only the West but more moderate Arab states has come - Pakistan simply cannot handle the situation they find themselves in and it is high time they allowed a gutting of their country. Pakistan is lucky at the moment that most of these terrorists and terrorist leaders are confined to the NorthWest Frontier provinces and the time is now to gut that area.
Al-Qaida announces deaths of 4 commanders
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida confirmed in a Web statement Sunday the death of a senior commander known as a top explosives and poisons expert, who is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week.
The statement said Abu Khabab al-Masri and three other commanders were killed. It did not give details on when or how they were killed, but Pakistani authorities have said they believe al-Masri died in an American airstrike last Monday on a compound near the Afghan border.
Pakistani officials have said six people were killed in that strike, in the country's lawless South Waziristan tribal region.
Al-Masri, an Egyptian militant whose real name is Midhat Mursi, had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States. He is accused of training terrorists to use poisons and explosives, and is believed to have trained suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
He is also believed to have helped run al-Qaida's Darunta training camp in eastern Afghanistan, until the camp was abandoned amid the 2001 U.S. invasion of the country. There he is thought to have conducted experiments in chemical and biological weapons, testing materials on dogs.
The al-Qaida statement called al-Masri and the other three slain commanders "a group of heroes" and warned of vengeance for their deaths.
"We tell the enemies of God that God has saved those who will be even more painful for you," it said. "As Abu Khabab has gone, he left behind, with God's grace, a generation of faithful students who will make you suffer the worst torture and avenge him and his brothers."
The statement, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed, was dated July 30 and signed by al-Qaida's top Afghan leader, Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed. It was posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida usually issues official statements and videos of its leaders.
The statement made no mention of an airstrike killing the four commanders, and did not say how or when they died.
Abu Khabab al-Masri is a pseudonym, meaning "father of the trotting horse, the Egyptian."
The other three slain leaders also seemed to be Egyptians, since their pseudonyms included the name "al-Masri"—but little is known about them. The statement identified them as Abu Mohammed Ibrahim bin Abi Farag al-Masri, Abdul-Wahab al-Masri and Abu Islam al-Masri.
It gave no details about them, beyond calling Abu Mohammed "the holy warrior sheik and tutor." The statement said some of their children were killed with them but gave no further details.
The U.S. military, wary of embarrassing its Pakistani allies, has not officially confirmed it carried out the July 28 strike. Two Pakistani intelligence officials and at least one pro-Taliban militant said they believed al-Masri had died in the attack, and an American official in Washington expressed cautious optimism al-Masri was among the dead.
CBS News reported Friday that al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, was killed or critically injured in the strike. CBS said it had obtained a copy of an intercepted letter dated July 29 from unnamed sources in Pakistan in which a Taliban leader urgently requested a doctor to treat Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant.
A Taliban spokesman, Maulvi Umar, denied the report. Pakistan army and intelligence officials said they had no information that al-Zawahri was hit.
Both bin Laden and al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding in the rugged and lawless tribal regions along the Afghan-Pakistan border. In January, al-Masri was initially reported to have been killed in a similar airstrike said to have been targeting al-Zawahri, but Pakistani officials quickly backed off claims al-Masri was killed.
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