Posted on 01/29/2006 4:22:24 PM PST by prophetic
CIA Expands Use of Drones in Terror War 'Targeted killing' with missile-firing Predators is a way to hit Al Qaeda in remote areas, officials say. Host nations are not always given notice.
WASHINGTON — Despite protests from other countries, the United States is expanding a top-secret effort to kill suspected terrorists with drone-fired missiles as it pursues an increasingly decentralized Al Qaeda, U.S. officials say.
The CIA's failed Jan. 13 attempt to assassinate Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri in Pakistan was the latest strike in the "targeted killing" program, a highly classified initiative that officials say has broadened as the network splintered and fled Afghanistan.
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Another apparent Predator missile strike killed a former Taliban commander, Nek Mohammed, in South Waziristan in June 2004, along with five others. A local observer said the strike was so precise that it didn't damage any of the buildings around the lawn where Mohammed was seated. At the time, the Pakistani army said Mohammed had been killed in clashes with its soldiers.
I'm getting the vibe that tactics need tweaking if Zwahiri really blew off the party last week when he saw drones in the area.
It killed a couple terrorist... not sure I'd say it was failure.
Eat hellfires b*tches!
This will make our enemies more wary & edgy next times.
We need a couple dozen of thee on our southern border.
It killed Zawahiri also....:-)
Zawahiri sleeps with the fishs.....:-)
I doubt he could have seen any drone. They fly too high, are too small, too quiet, and was nighttime. Maybe he was tipped off by the Paki gov't...or maybe he was scattered about the area.
It killed Zawahiri also.
"The CIA's failed Jan. 13 attempt to assassinate Al Qaeda"
there was nothing failed about that, not one damn thing
I can't prove Zawahiri is dead....BUT I am SURE he is dead.....as sure as I am that OBL is alive.
I know...
Yea - I've been mumbling about that for a while, myself.
Can you imagine the effect of predators cruising the border and during night missions - randomly - firing a few tracers. I read somewhere that the A-10's flying missions over enemy dropped their shell casings in flight and the shell casings falling on enemy home roofs was as scary as getting fired at.
Sorry I pasted the wrong quote from you on my reply.
The question I still have is who was "spirited" from those graves and who did it? Have we seen anything from that area lately? There was a flurry of news during the week after the hellfire attack and everything seems to have gone silent since then.
To my knowledge, the U.S. has never released any kind of statement whatsoever on the attack and after complaining in order to pacify the anti American crowd in Pakistan, we have heard nothing from them in the last five days either. ......dog, you may just be right.
It's weird but little things are taking place in that general area of the strike.
Two days after the strike...two men are killed in a landmine explosion 5 clicks from the strike in a place called Jangevi.
Less than a week after the strike 5 men were swooped down on by unknown security troops an arrested in a place called Matta.
Not long after that a relative of Faqir Mohammad(who it is thought took away the AQ bodies) was arrested along with another fella....for planting landmines.
Today I read of a Turkish AQ guy picked up in Shah Alam north of Peshawar...again in the same general area.
There is a secret hunt on in that area....that is flying under the media radar.
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