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Al-Qaida: Explosives expert wanted by US killed
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Posted on 08/03/2008 4:32:58 PM PDT by Gopher Broke

By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 3, 4:15 PM ET

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago.

Abu Khabab al-Masri, who had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States, is believed to have been killed in an airstrike apparently launched by the U.S. in Pakistan last week.

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TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abukhababalmasri; almasri; alqaeda; dead; enemy; globaljihad; islam; mohammedanism; oldnews; pakiistan; terror; usscole
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To: Gopher Broke

YEA!


21 posted on 08/03/2008 4:55:11 PM PDT by angcat (Obama is Pimping Bushs ride)
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To: Gopher Broke

Just one cockroach. Millions more to go.


22 posted on 08/03/2008 4:58:01 PM PDT by Nachum (Obama: creepy you can count on)
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To: Hugin
And I thought there was absolutely no use for learning haiku.

Thanks for fine verse!

23 posted on 08/03/2008 4:59:25 PM PDT by RightField (The older you get .... the older "old" is.)
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To: Islander7
My dad (rip) was a navy inspector at the shipyard that repaired the USS Starke after it was attacked by Iran. I was there the day they towed it into the yard. Still gives me goosebumps and tears in my eyes when I think of the damage that ship suffered.

The same shipyard also refurbished the USS Iowa. My dad loved that project. He worked in the shipyards when WWII started and ended up on a PT boat in the Pacific. Even though he was well past retirement age they kept him going to work every day until the morning he died of a heart attack while he was getting ready for work. He said he would sit for days and days and get no much as a phone call, then one day they would come and get him and take him down the Iowa to look at something in the way of pipe fitting or ship fitting that none of today's yard guys had ever seen. Usually he would be able to at least point them in the right direction to figure it out. It was a real blessing having the USS Alabama less than 60 mile away! They would go over there and see how whatever was a problem had been handled on the Alabama.

Everyone should have a chance to see the shuttle being taken back to FL aboard its 747 and everyone should have a chance to see a WWII battleship in dry dock!

24 posted on 08/03/2008 5:04:28 PM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: 1rudeboy

Florida airmen
rain death from around the world
how is the jihad going?


25 posted on 08/03/2008 5:08:39 PM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: ko_kyi

575, not 577. dang.

Florida airmen
rain death from around the world
how goes the jihad?


26 posted on 08/03/2008 5:09:33 PM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: ko_kyi
I like it, but you should be brought up on charges for assault against haiku.
27 posted on 08/03/2008 5:17:51 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: jwparkerjr

Your father was a true patriot, and I would have been honored to meet him.


28 posted on 08/03/2008 5:20:38 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: jwparkerjr

My family has a long history with Ingall’s (Now Northrup-Grumman). My brothers were there in the 60s building submarines. Can’t tell you how many cousins, nephews, friends, neighbors, etc. have or do work there.

I remember the Iowa well! I went to the recommissioning. My brother-in-law was stationed at Ingall’s until her retired from the Navy then work there for several years. He was amazed by the fine workmanship in the USS Iowa and the USS Wisconsin. Both were built mainly by women! Attended the USS Wisconsin recommissioning as well.

I guess I’ve lived a full life. I’ve seen the Shuttle piggy-back on a 747 and a mighty Battle Ship stem to stern.

Love the USS Alabama museum and park. Did you know Hurricane Katrina cause an 8 degree list in Alabama?


29 posted on 08/03/2008 5:24:49 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Hugin

“Predator above,
unseen, a dot in the sky.
Al Qaida flambe.”

Ahh.. Al Qaida Haaikus.

Alone in a cave
Watching the sky for spy planes
Boom! bye bye dirt bag


30 posted on 08/03/2008 5:27:30 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

It is the full moon
Not the crescent of Islam
Shows the drone - die now.


31 posted on 08/03/2008 5:33:10 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: Islander7
re: My brothers were there in the 60s building submarines

Hell, I was there building subs in the 60’s. The last conventional sub was built there, at the same time they were working on four nucelar subs. The Barb, the Dace, and two others I don't recall the names, one of them might have been the Sculpin. I can't even remember the name of the last conventional sub! I do remember the nuclear subs were hull numbers 1063, 1064 or something like that.

We lived in Grand Bay and my dad used car pool with several other guys down and back every day. I worked in the pre-test lab at first and then over in the nondestructive testing.

My brother was there with Shook and Fletcher doing insulation.

I also did some time at ADDSCO in Mobile. They were coverting the Korean-era carrier Saipan into a floating command post for JFK. His death, the same day they launched the Marine Sulfur Queen, signaled the end of the Saipan project.

Ingall’s for a long time was building those oil rigs for the Gulf. Another pretty impressive site to see one of those bubbas sitting on dry land!

It seems to me like the ship that shot down that Iranian airliner back in the 80’s was built at Ingall’s. I know they built several of those type destroyers. Those were the last ships my dad worked on. He was like a fish out of water by the time, what will all the aluminum superstructure and everything.

Of course, Ingall’s claim to fame is the workers from there who claimed to have been abducted by aliens while fishing on the river in Pascagoula. They took a lot of kidding but my brother knew one of them and said he was never the same after that. He says whatever it was that happened to them it was real in their minds.

Ah, the good ol’ days when Ingall’s had three shifts working! The best boiled peanuts I ever ate in my life were sold by an old black woman right outside the gate, was that Market St. that ran east and west and dead-ended at the Ingall’s gate.

I spent a week in Pascagoula right after Katrina doing some freelance shooting work for a couple of outlets. Quite a sight, but it wasn't like they had never been through it before!

Thanks for memories! I'm gettin’ old and if I don't take them out for air once in awhile they get lost in the dust of the attic! PS Boy this post sure drove the spell checker wild!

32 posted on 08/03/2008 5:48:46 PM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: Gopher Broke

I hope that pork fat on the warhead was salted.


33 posted on 08/03/2008 6:12:18 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Islander7

Or “Aboom Shish-Kabab owe-Mercy” ?


34 posted on 08/03/2008 6:24:42 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (The Dum-bama Banking Committee offers free breathalysers and inhilators for asthmatics in 58 states.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
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35 posted on 08/03/2008 6:26:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: Will88
AQ has a long standing history of declaring those that have been KIA - Not to do so, is seen as a great dis-honor - Another reason to understand UBL is still alive....

And always remember it is easier to spin the truth than to hide a lie....

36 posted on 08/03/2008 6:41:08 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: Gopher Broke

The predator is our equivalent of a suicide bomber.

Except, when we do it, the bomber gets a free starbucks coffee for every Al Qaeda chieftain he takes out. And if he gets two in the same day, his supervisor springs for pizza.


37 posted on 08/03/2008 6:44:22 PM PDT by marron
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To: Gopher Broke

Good riddance to bad rubbish.


38 posted on 08/03/2008 6:46:04 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: Gopher Broke
Terrorism experts downplayed the significance of al-Masri's death. ---- "A big name does not mean a big impact on the ground," said Mustafa Alani, director of national security and terrorism studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. "The bottom line is that those people are replaceable. The organization has developed in such a way that it can survive and fill in any gap even if Osama bin Laden was to die."

Complete and utter MSM bullsh*t - The killing of senior (and even mid-level) AQ leadership has tremendously reduced their capabilities. Both regionally and internationally. They are replaced with far less effective personnel. Reality is the killing of Zarqawi (AQs leader in Iraq) in 06 was the beginning of the end of AQ there...and is what paved the way for "the surge" to be so successful. Zarqawi's are not replaceable. Nor is many of AQ original Sr. leadership that we have taken out (ditto that for the Taliban).

It is complete and utter bullsh*t when the MSM try and spin such (always looking to spin negative).

39 posted on 08/03/2008 6:47:57 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: Gopher Broke

Another jihadi scumbag taking a permanent dirt nap. A very good day’s work.

Great shootin’ by the good guys!


40 posted on 08/03/2008 6:56:10 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Our troops DESERVE BETTER than Barack Hussein Obama!!)
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