Posted on 05/11/2008 12:01:32 PM PDT by Dog
A prominent member of al Qaeda was killed in fighting with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website on Sunday.
Abu Suleiman al-Otaibi, formerly one of the group's leaders in Iraq, was killed in a "fierce battle with the worshipers of the cross" in Paktia, it said without giving the date of the battle.
Another al Qaeda member, identified as Abu Dejana al-Qahtani, also died in the fighting, it added.
Afghan officials said they had no information on the report. But the government earlier said in a statement that "five opposition" fighters were killed on Saturday in Paktia during an operation involving Afghan and U.S.-led troops.
The leader of al Qaeda in Afghanistan Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said Qahtani left Iraq about six months ago without giving further details.
Otaibi was the head of the judiciary at the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a group started by al Qaeda and fellow Sunni militant groups.
Violence has been at its worst level in Afghanistan since 2006, the bloodiest period since the removal of the al Qaeda-backed Taliban in 2001.
U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001 after its leaders refused to hand over Osama bin Laden and his top aides to the United States for trial for the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.
(Reporting by Inal Ersan in Dubai and Sayed Salahuddin in Kabul; editing by Sami Aboudi)
The rats have fled the sinking ship.
Seems Elvis left the building six months ago....makes me wonder where Abu Masri calls home now.
Well, now he is a GOOD Al Qaida member.
Another bad day killed only 5.The boys need to go back to the shooting range.
Precisely. You noticed the big news in this event, an indicator that will be duly ignored by the MSM. If they even notice it.
One of the most underreported salient facts about al-Qaeda is how frequently they describe their enemies as "worshipers of the cross." It's a constant element in their public communications. Yet no matter how many times al-Qaeda makes clear their motivations, the mainstream media, the fingers-in-their-ears Left and the Ron Paul Right will continue to tell us that it is our arrogant policies and our arrogant president which make us their enemy.
bttt
Worships of the Cross, indeed..
The morons can't even get their enemy's identity right!
It's CRUSADERS you damned fools...
At least try to get that right...
One day soon -- their women and children will be driven from their ruined cities and living in tents and caves around the desert and in the mountains.. They will huddle close together in the dark near their tiny fires, telling their children stories of the CRUSADERS who came from the West to destroy them..
The rats have been blown off of the sinking ship.
Only to be blown up with the other sinking ship.
Does this mean he went from “fake” al Qaeda to “real” al Qaeda by going from Iraq to Afghanistan?
Bush’s fault.
Great news. ;o)
Abu Suleiman al-Otaibi. Just as I thought, a Saudi close to some Wahhabi clerics. Wonder if I can find his name linked with Abdullah ibn Jibreen. I think that there was an Otaibi that was a son in law of Abdullah ibn Jibreen.
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