[blam]

Still no mention that a/the body was recovered.

[vbmoneyspender]

the body hasn't been recovered because it was put through a cheese-grater courtesy of some hellfires and a couple of jdams.

[mrsmith]

"This just in: Atef still dead!"

:-)

[piasa]

Just posting followup info on Atef and Al Marri. Al-Marri is an Illinois resident affiliated with some Islamic charities who earned the label enemy combatant; the FBI took an interest in a steamer chest he had in his home back in 2001 :

...Marri had been calling other numbers, in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, according to the complaint. Intelligence and law enforcement sources say he was calling senior al-Qaeda operatives. The government’s interest in Marri was soon heightened further. In mid-November 2001, al-Qaeda’s senior military commander, Muhammad Atef, was killed in a U.S. rocket attack on an Afghanistan safe house. ... “When he was killed, we found out there was a huge al-Qaeda interest in chemical and biological weapons,” said an intelligence source knowledgeable about the investigations of both Atef and Marri. ... Materials recovered from Atef’s safe house, the source said, revealed that Marri might be one of them. He and Atef had “shared contacts,” the source said. ----- "On the trail of an 'enemy combatant'~Details emerge on Marri's alleged role in 2nd wave...," Washington Post ^ | July 19, 2007 | Susan Schmidt

[piasa]

1994/1995 : (SUDAN REVEALS AL QAEDA'S MOHAMMED ATEF WAS INVOLVED IN GRUESOME AMBUSH OF PALKISTANI PEACEKEEPERS IN SOMALIA) 24 Pakistani Peacekeepers in Somalia are ambushed, shot to death, skinned, and their remains paraded through the streets by a mob. [Author's note: in 1994/95 it is revealed by the Sudanese govt that an Al Queda operative based in The Sudan, and several other Al Queda operatives including #3 man Mohammed Atef, had gone to Somalia, trained Somalis in tactics that had been learned during the fight against Soviets in Afghanistan, and had they themselves taken part in this attack.] ---------- "PRE-BUSH timeline/list of Iraq's Ties To Al Queda," by Sam Pender-author of Iraq's Smoking Gun and other books on the matter , 6/12/04