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'Dead' al Qaeda Leader Appears in 'New' Video
Yahoo/ABC ^ | 12 jUN 2012 | RYM MOMTAZ and LEE FERRAN

Posted on 06/12/2012 11:39:24 PM PDT by shove_it

A new video surfaced online Tuesday featuring al Qaeda commander Abu Yahya al-Libi -- the same terrorist that American officials declared dead last week -- but the video doesn't appear to reveal whether it was made before or after his reported death.

In the new footage, which was posted in jihadi forums with captions referring to al-Libi in honorific titles generally reserved for the living, al-Libi discusses the ongoing violence in Syria but makes no specific reference to any dates or significant events there. A bloody struggle between Syrian opposition groups and the government has been ongoing for over a year, since well before al-Libi's reported death.

Al-Libi was declared dead by U.S. and Pakistani officials last week following a series of drone strikes in Pakistan. Other al Qaeda leaders have not confirmed nor denied al-Libi's death, and an analyst with the terrorist tracking group IntelCenter said that it is "not unknown for groups to release videos of key figures that were filmed prior to their death but had not yet been released."

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Maybe it's not too late to get this guy's autograph on his 'baseball card'.
1 posted on 06/12/2012 11:39:29 PM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

Sitting here la la
Waiting for my ya ya
uh huh


2 posted on 06/13/2012 1:20:26 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: shove_it

They have been doing this for YEARS.

But the undocumented pRes_ _ent needs the acclaim and
takes the bait willingingly for his Islamic clan.


3 posted on 06/13/2012 3:40:25 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: shove_it

“Slow Joe” Biden is brain-dead but still shows up on video, so what’s the diff?


4 posted on 06/13/2012 5:00:35 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: shove_it

All warfare is deception. Hussein has a CAIR Jihadi running his war on the Shia, Allowhite, Druse and all other types of pagan, moslem that’s not Sunni, such as himself and his sperm donor moslem father.


5 posted on 06/13/2012 6:00:07 AM PDT by STD ([You must help] people in the communityÂ…feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless)
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