Posted on 03/04/2008 11:01:06 AM PST by Dog
U.S. forces found, targeted and killed in a Somali desert city the senior al Qaeda operative who masterminded the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa and had since spent a decade in hiding, The Washington Times has learned.
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who is one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, was the target of a U.S. missile strike on a residence in Dobley, a small town in southern Somalia near the Kenyan border, according to a U.S. military official who spoke to The Times on the condition of anonymity because of the nature of the operation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Horrors, how dare we kill the POS! /s
Let’s recall that the Clintonista policies would have required that we could only try to capture (never kill) this guy, entailing unnecessary risks for our side, a likely firefight, and far lower chances of ending up with such a satisfactory ‘resolution’ of the case........ also, if we had captured this mass murdering POS we would have been required to support him in love and comfort for the rest of his days, unless another liberal President pardoned him first....
Burn in hell you a$$hat!
The headline wasn’t in red caps and my husband wasn’t screaming and blowing the horn....
so, figured it wasn’t the SOB we all want to see fuel air bombed.
The World is a better place today, because this guy is gone.
Luv things that go Boom in the night!
Rest in pieces, you Al Qaeda bastard. And all your 72 virgins have syph.
He kind of looks like.....Oh never mind.
Nice work indeed. Another lousy goon goes down.
I think it also has a lot to do with developing HUMINT all over the world. That takes time.
“If everything is exploding around you, that’s probably us”
Also always nice to see how they look now ...
+ Predator = 
We've been having a great deal of success lately turning these asshats into grease spots ... keep up the good work.
Yes it did. You dog, you.
We got this one but “missed” out on Mughniyeh in Syria. In fact the USA had nothing to do with that hit.
On the contrary, we finally positively located Mughniyeh and a few days earlier sent in an eight person team to extract him alive. Unfortunately Hezbollah made them at Beirut Airport.
The Hezzies passed this information to Islamic Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who feared the intel that Mughniyeh could provide, specially about Iran’s subversive activities in Lebanon and Hezbollah plans, so they took Mughniyeh out.
We nearly got him - alive. The Iranians/Hezbollah were the hit men.
It may have been the extraction team arriving with insufficient cover in Beirut that blew it but at least one of the enemy involved with the 9-11 attack in New York, is no longer in good health!
All our agencies have been trying to get a positive ID and get Mughniyeh for years and years, so the need for speed may well have meant a less than sufficient “cloak” for the team.
Without all the frills attached, there is a common cause.
Agreed. Introducing less known facts about Syrian event.
Good job! USA!
Hey we’re getting to be as good as Mossad.
And I think he is still dead.
Aidid died a long time ago, of mysterious circumstances, presumably of a heart attack, but who knows?
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