Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan, officials say

CNN ^ | 12/9/12 | Nasir Habib

[LibWhacker]

• A senior leader was killed in a Thursday drone strike, intelligence officials say
  
• Three militants were killed Sunday, officials say

  Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A senior al Qaeda leader was killed in a drone strike Thursday in Pakistan, two of the country's intelligence officials told CNN on Sunday.

  Sheikh Khalid bin Abdel Rehman, who also went by the code name Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti, was killed in the strike near Miran Shah in North Waziristan, one of the seven districts of Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the officials said.

[txrangerette]

Night talk host Charlie Jones was speaking about this...read from some source that this guy was the last one standing between Zawahiri and a bunch of little nobody wannabes.

Headline was “something’s up in the Pakistani tribal areas”. Must’ve gotten a mother lode of new intel, because he’s the 4th one to die just recently.

Of course this is GREAT because O is president, but it was unforgivable of Bush/Cheney to use “harsh interrogation techniques”, and we must try terrorists in our courts here to ensure their rights and above all, close the “horror” of gitmo... /sarc