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Exclusive: Al Qaeda No. 2 Injured?
cbsnews.com ^ | August 1, 2008

Posted on 08/01/2008 5:08:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Unverified Letter Obtained By CBS News Urgently Requests Doctor To Treat Ayman al-Zawahiri

CBS) Ayman al-Zawahiri - the second most powerful leader in al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden's No. 2 - may be critically wounded and possibly dead, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports exclusively.

CBS News has obtained a copy of an intercepted letter from sources in Pakistan, which urgently requests a doctor to treat al-Zawahiri. He's believed to be somewhere in Pakistan's remote tribal areas of Pakistan.

The letter refers to Sheikh Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri by name - and says that he is in "severe pain" and his "injuries are infected."

It is reportedly written by local Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, whose signature and seal are visible on the letter.

The Taliban logo and the Mehsud's seal have been confirmed by experts as legitimate.

However, CBS News has not been able to confirm the authenticity of Baitullah Mehsud's signature and seal.

The letter is dated July 29 - one day after a U.S. air strike that killed al Qaeda weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Masri, and five other Arabs in South Waziristan.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2good2betrue; afghanistan; alqaeda; alzawahiri; aymanalzawahiri; binladen; globaljihad; mohammedanism; pakistan; taliban; wot; zawahiri
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To: Enchante

YOU MEANIES!!

You guys are hitting her below the belt.....

LOL


61 posted on 08/01/2008 5:56:50 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

LOL! He wanted war with the U.S. He got it.


62 posted on 08/01/2008 5:57:07 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe al-Zawahiri can somehow find his way to Shelbyville, Tennessee, to the Tyson Chicken Plant and have someone tend to him. I heard there is a sanctuary for Muslim terrorists that has been created there for the heathen offspring of porcine origin. He could celebrate the October 1st Satanic holiday while he’s there since the Tyson Chicken plant has decided to allow employees the day off for that Satanic holiday instead of Labour day...


63 posted on 08/01/2008 5:57:15 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wow! Obama goes to Afghanistan and Z-man gets whacked. The messiah is really gooooooooooood! /sarcasm


64 posted on 08/01/2008 6:01:20 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: headstamp 2

Gut Shot maybe?? Peritonitis can be quite painful... and deadly. That is why a ruptured appendix has such a high fatality rate.


65 posted on 08/01/2008 6:03:15 PM PDT by coldoc
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To: Travis McGee

knock knock...

BTW, you should see what these look like up close...They just recently took away our 147th (F-16’s) from Ellington and replaced them with some of these...

Our active CAP will come from the 138th FW in Oklahoma...

“When seconds count, help is only one state away...”


66 posted on 08/01/2008 6:04:16 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: Huck
chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan </snigger>
67 posted on 08/01/2008 6:04:58 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hummeroids can be a real problem.


68 posted on 08/01/2008 6:05:26 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Huck

thanks for posting that


69 posted on 08/01/2008 6:07:16 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is this Dan Rather at it again, creating FAUX NEWS??


70 posted on 08/01/2008 6:07:30 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 (An Empty Suited Opportunist with No Redeeming Value!)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

lol


71 posted on 08/01/2008 6:07:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Possible Column


72 posted on 08/01/2008 6:09:31 PM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: vetvetdoug

Can I offer some support and advice?

I lived that life for four years and I even scared off the most “Evangelical” bosses because they could not deal with the fact the Human Resource departments ALL OVER force this edict on employees. I fought it and got beat up.

I am here now!


73 posted on 08/01/2008 6:18:32 PM PDT by Dacula (I never left the Republican party, they left me a long time ago.)
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To: Soliton

“The buzzards deserve better”

Ok, give them a side dish of Bin Laden pate


74 posted on 08/01/2008 6:32:20 PM PDT by billmor (The American Voter--the Sleeping Tiger. Kicked in the back end.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Rush announced this today on his radio show. Rush says the guy has been killed

What he said was "appears he may have been". Sorry, it gives the left too much ammo to miss-state even a small Rush quote.

75 posted on 08/01/2008 6:34:06 PM PDT by youturn (I'm learning to draw a fish. I suggest you do too.)
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To: Dacula

bttt


76 posted on 08/01/2008 6:35:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Free ThinkerNY

When I first saw this story I was a little disappointed that maybe he was only hurt instead of killed.

But then came the thought of a long slow lingering, pain-filled, raging infection sort of death... And I felt oddly better about the whole thing.


77 posted on 08/01/2008 6:36:08 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Huck
Isn't Laura the big whore from Baghdad?
78 posted on 08/01/2008 6:36:19 PM PDT by angcat (Obama is Pimping Bushs ride)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jqqG84NeL89n-b60iebsVTkStxCA

***Umar’s 18-year-old son, another Egyptian, two Saudis and a Pakistani were also among the six people killed when missiles hit a house attached to a village mosque, security officials said.***

79 posted on 08/01/2008 6:36:59 PM PDT by tobyhill (fraud -noun;(1)deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, (2) Obama)
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To: xjcsa

The Al Qaeda “Emirs” in Iraq have had a tough time of it, too.


80 posted on 08/01/2008 6:38:10 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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