Posted on 08/03/2008 4:32:58 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 3, 4:15 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago.
Abu Khabab al-Masri, who had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States, is believed to have been killed in an airstrike apparently launched by the U.S. in Pakistan last week.
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Kaboom.
Another one bites the dust (another one bites the dust).
so does the pilot get the 5 mill?...just askin....
It took some very brave on the ground intelligence to get the Predator on target. I think our boys are doing a great job of hunting them down in Paki.
Revenge for the USS COLE!
Good news indeed!
Did they get al-Zawahiri or not?
Pelosi and Obama are distraught over this turn of events.
Amen!
I would like to hear from a relative of one of those who died if news like this does anything to bring closure to their experience. I know everyone reacts differently to a situation, but I would like to think the people who pulled this off, God bless and protect them, know their bravery and devotion to duty has given the families of fellow warriors some help in their loss.
Keep it up, Hell ain’t full yet.
Hey, the guy’s name was ‘Abu Khabab al-Masri’. Now that he has had a Hellfire Missile in the teeth shouldn’t he called ‘Abu Kaboom al-Messy’?
I would have to have a dna test on the body before I believed them.
Shish Khabab al-Messed-Up.
Shish Khabab al-Messed-Up.
I like yours better than mine!
;-)
And another one gone, and another one gone...
Very true. It must be unsettling for AQ to know that they could die in a fiery exposion at any moment without warning.
Al Qaida is confirming our kills for us? Now that would be a good way for them to take some key personnel off the US’s target list, well, if we chose to believe them.
I hope there is/will be confirmation from other sources.
YEA!
Just one cockroach. Millions more to go.
Thanks for fine verse!
The same shipyard also refurbished the USS Iowa. My dad loved that project. He worked in the shipyards when WWII started and ended up on a PT boat in the Pacific. Even though he was well past retirement age they kept him going to work every day until the morning he died of a heart attack while he was getting ready for work. He said he would sit for days and days and get no much as a phone call, then one day they would come and get him and take him down the Iowa to look at something in the way of pipe fitting or ship fitting that none of today's yard guys had ever seen. Usually he would be able to at least point them in the right direction to figure it out. It was a real blessing having the USS Alabama less than 60 mile away! They would go over there and see how whatever was a problem had been handled on the Alabama.
Everyone should have a chance to see the shuttle being taken back to FL aboard its 747 and everyone should have a chance to see a WWII battleship in dry dock!
Florida airmen
rain death from around the world
how is the jihad going?
575, not 577. dang.
Florida airmen
rain death from around the world
how goes the jihad?
Your father was a true patriot, and I would have been honored to meet him.
My family has a long history with Ingall’s (Now Northrup-Grumman). My brothers were there in the 60s building submarines. Can’t tell you how many cousins, nephews, friends, neighbors, etc. have or do work there.
I remember the Iowa well! I went to the recommissioning. My brother-in-law was stationed at Ingall’s until her retired from the Navy then work there for several years. He was amazed by the fine workmanship in the USS Iowa and the USS Wisconsin. Both were built mainly by women! Attended the USS Wisconsin recommissioning as well.
I guess I’ve lived a full life. I’ve seen the Shuttle piggy-back on a 747 and a mighty Battle Ship stem to stern.
Love the USS Alabama museum and park. Did you know Hurricane Katrina cause an 8 degree list in Alabama?
“Predator above,
unseen, a dot in the sky.
Al Qaida flambe.”
Ahh.. Al Qaida Haaikus.
Alone in a cave
Watching the sky for spy planes
Boom! bye bye dirt bag
It is the full moon
Not the crescent of Islam
Shows the drone - die now.
Hell, I was there building subs in the 60’s. The last conventional sub was built there, at the same time they were working on four nucelar subs. The Barb, the Dace, and two others I don't recall the names, one of them might have been the Sculpin. I can't even remember the name of the last conventional sub! I do remember the nuclear subs were hull numbers 1063, 1064 or something like that.
We lived in Grand Bay and my dad used car pool with several other guys down and back every day. I worked in the pre-test lab at first and then over in the nondestructive testing.
My brother was there with Shook and Fletcher doing insulation.
I also did some time at ADDSCO in Mobile. They were coverting the Korean-era carrier Saipan into a floating command post for JFK. His death, the same day they launched the Marine Sulfur Queen, signaled the end of the Saipan project.
Ingall’s for a long time was building those oil rigs for the Gulf. Another pretty impressive site to see one of those bubbas sitting on dry land!
It seems to me like the ship that shot down that Iranian airliner back in the 80’s was built at Ingall’s. I know they built several of those type destroyers. Those were the last ships my dad worked on. He was like a fish out of water by the time, what will all the aluminum superstructure and everything.
Of course, Ingall’s claim to fame is the workers from there who claimed to have been abducted by aliens while fishing on the river in Pascagoula. They took a lot of kidding but my brother knew one of them and said he was never the same after that. He says whatever it was that happened to them it was real in their minds.
Ah, the good ol’ days when Ingall’s had three shifts working! The best boiled peanuts I ever ate in my life were sold by an old black woman right outside the gate, was that Market St. that ran east and west and dead-ended at the Ingall’s gate.
I spent a week in Pascagoula right after Katrina doing some freelance shooting work for a couple of outlets. Quite a sight, but it wasn't like they had never been through it before!
Thanks for memories! I'm gettin’ old and if I don't take them out for air once in awhile they get lost in the dust of the attic! PS Boy this post sure drove the spell checker wild!
I hope that pork fat on the warhead was salted.
Or “Aboom Shish-Kabab owe-Mercy” ?
And always remember it is easier to spin the truth than to hide a lie....
The predator is our equivalent of a suicide bomber.
Except, when we do it, the bomber gets a free starbucks coffee for every Al Qaeda chieftain he takes out. And if he gets two in the same day, his supervisor springs for pizza.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Complete and utter MSM bullsh*t - The killing of senior (and even mid-level) AQ leadership has tremendously reduced their capabilities. Both regionally and internationally. They are replaced with far less effective personnel. Reality is the killing of Zarqawi (AQs leader in Iraq) in 06 was the beginning of the end of AQ there...and is what paved the way for "the surge" to be so successful. Zarqawi's are not replaceable. Nor is many of AQ original Sr. leadership that we have taken out (ditto that for the Taliban).
It is complete and utter bullsh*t when the MSM try and spin such (always looking to spin negative).
Another jihadi scumbag taking a permanent dirt nap. A very good day’s work.
Great shootin’ by the good guys!
It’s too hard to keep up with which Al-Masri it is. I did a google image search and it still isn’t clear.
To anyone who may say this means nothing as they do not fear death: They seem to fear something, as they’ve been hiding for years.
GRRRRREAT news! Trickle down annihilation works!
Maybe we are making the skies over the Tribal Areas black with Predators....about time!
Interesting.... this guy died in January of 2006, too.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1517986
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/01/abu_khabab_almasri_a_master_of.php
“Yeeeehaaaw!... Jester’s Dead!”
Now it’s time to set the sights on Iceman(Osama)and Slider(Al-Zawahiri).
God Bless America and all of her brave, selfless, and heroic defenders.
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