Posted on 01/31/2007 6:16:43 AM PST by Vote 4 Nixon
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the Philippines for alleged terror financing, was killed in Madagascar in what appeared to be a burglary, the victim's brother said Wednesday.
Jamal Khalifa, who was married to a sister of the al-Qaida leader, was killed when gunmen broke into his house in a Madagascan village on Tuesday, his brother Malek Khalifa said in a phone interview from his home in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
Malek, who was distraught when recounting his brother's death, said between 25 and 30 armed men broke into Jamal's house "while he was sleeping," and killed him. "They stole everything — his computer, all of his things," he said.
Malek said he did not have more details because his brother was a Saudi citizen and Saudi Arabia did not have an embassy on the East African island.
He said his main concern was "to collect my brother's body."
He said Jamal was in Madagascar on business, and his wife and family were in Saudi Arabia.
Malek abruptly ended the call with The Associated Press, but was quoted by the Al-Arabiya satellite TV channel as saying that Jamal mined and traded precious stones in Madagascar.
The Philippine government sought Jamal for allegedly financing the Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic militant group, through a charity organization in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
But Jamal reportedly denied this, most recently in a letter that was published Saturday in the Philippine newspaper The Daily Inquirer. "I have never given any money to any person or group, and certainly not to the Abu Sayyaf," according to the letter.
The U.S. named Jamal as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, and arrested him the following year on a visa violation
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Peace be upon him.
Madagascar? Daniel Craig got 'im, just like in Casino Royale.
"Burglary." Riiiight.
You throw a stone in a crowd in Riyadh you have a 50% chance of hitting a Bin-Laden relative.
Gotta love those odds.
30 man strong detail doing a single burglary? Well, OK.
Me thinks this is more then just a robbery. In any event, I'm sure he will be welcomed in the after life and get's his just due.... Semper Fi
Between 25 and 30 guys?
For a burglary?
Methinks this was an assassination, expecting guards, and the theft was a ruse... which was (apparently) fell for...
...< sniff>... I just love a happy ending!
Well, that's another one down. Unfortunately there are how many more to go? At least a hundred?
Got a feeling the 'puter' will end up in our hands.
I say we take a couple of the B-52s stationed at Diego Garcia and fill them up with stones...
in what appeared to be a burglary...
"Malek, who was distraught when recounting his brother's death, said between 25 and 30 armed men broke into Jamal's house "while he was sleeping," and killed him. "They stole everything — his computer, all of his things," he said."
sounds like a plan to me
If it already isn't.
Or else, it was a team of Navy Seals, and this worked out just as they planned.
25 or 30 men, all armed ... to commit a burglary? Unless he had his own armed entourage, this sounds a little odd.
Surprised he didn't "cut his own throat while shaving".
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