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To: Cindy

Cindy I saw a report that al-Shami was killed recently in a missile strike...Bill Roggio has it up on his site.


4 posted on 01/12/2010 1:07:26 PM PST by Dog
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To: Dog

Yes, you did Dog.

Thanks for heads up on this thread.
I’ll update it now.

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/01/jordanian_al_qaeda_o.php

“Jordanian al Qaeda operative killed in US airstrike in Pakistan”
By BILL ROGGIO
January 12, 2010 6:49 AM

SNIPPET: “An al Qaeda operative from Jordan was killed during a recent US airstrike in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan,

Mansur al Shami, a longtime jihadi whose real name is Mahmud Mahdi Zeidan, was confirmed to have been killed in a statement released on the Al Faloja and Shamukh al Islam jihadist web forums, according to the SITE Institute.

“The martyrdom of Mahmud Mahdi Zeidan... on the soil of Pakistan, the land of the diligent and of the mujahedeen is confirmed,” the statement read.

Shami’s family was also contacted by a member of al Qaeda who was present during the strike. “A man called me on Sunday and said my brother died in the US attack,” Shami’s brother Omar told AFP. “He spoke bad Arabic and said he escaped the attack. I think he is a Pakistani.””


5 posted on 01/12/2010 7:44:59 PM PST by Cindy
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