Once again, we see the typical one week delay in finding out who was killed in one of America's predator drone attacks in NW Pakistan but this time, it was well worth the wait and it was announced today, at this report at DAWN, that al Qaeda's Hussein Al-Yemeni was killed last week in a drone strike in North Waziristan.
From the article:
Look again at that first line of the article...and now we begin to see some of the revenge that the CIA is reaping for the attack on them in Khost, Afghanistan. I've pointed out here how the CIA wasted no time retaliating against Hakemullah Mehsud, the Taliban leader, after that suicide bombing that killed so many CIA and ever since, the predator strikes have been constant. And now, we see a key al Qaeda contributor to the Khost attack biting the big one.
Lesson to be learned by the Taliban and al Qaeda: do NOT piss off the CIA.
From the article:
A senior US official says an Al-Qaeda leader who is believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan in December was apparently killed in a missile strike last week.
The counterterrorism official says Hussein Al-Yemeni was believed killed in a strike in Miramshah, North Waziristan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Al-Yemeni is considered an important Al-Qaeda planner and explosives expert who had established contacts with groups ranging from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militant groups.
Look again at that first line of the article...and now we begin to see some of the revenge that the CIA is reaping for the attack on them in Khost, Afghanistan. I've pointed out here how the CIA wasted no time retaliating against Hakemullah Mehsud, the Taliban leader, after that suicide bombing that killed so many CIA and ever since, the predator strikes have been constant. And now, we see a key al Qaeda contributor to the Khost attack biting the big one.
Lesson to be learned by the Taliban and al Qaeda: do NOT piss off the CIA.
Al-Qaeda leader ‘killed in drone strike’
WASHINGTON: A senior US official says an Al-Qaeda leader who is believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan in December was apparently killed in a missile strike last week.
The counterterrorism official says Hussein Al-Yemeni was believed killed in a strike in Miramshah, North Waziristan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Al-Yemeni is considered an important Al-Qaeda planner and explosives expert who had established contacts with groups ranging from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militant groups.
Meanwhile, US operations to push back Taliban forces around Kandahar have “already begun” and will steadily build in coming months, the commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
General Stanley McChrystal told journalists that the US-led offensive on the Taliban’s spiritual heartland had started with initial military and political efforts, including operations designed to secure key roads and districts surrounding the southern city.—Agencies
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