Report: Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed

http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | FOX NEWS

[Deetes]

BREAKING NEWS — Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border, a security official told Reuters on Tuesday.

"He was believed to be among the top leadership of Al Qaeda," the senior security official told the news agency on condition of anonymity.

Al-Masri, which means Egyptian, was the senior most Al Qaeda operative

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Looks like no ones getting paid this month.

[VA_Gentleman]

Well let’s see... a top al-quaeda terrorist is killed, Michael Phelps and the rest of the US swimmers stuck it to France, oil prices are dropping, and the market even rallied. Not a bad start to the week.

[RPTMS]

It’s like being the new guy on Star Trek!

[Wiz]

When the information comes from Pakistan Intel regarding deaths of terrorist leaders, consider it very likey to be disinformation. This is what I learned from Bill Roggio.

[HundredDollars]

Some creative Freeper should photoshop a collage of these guys wearing red Star Trek Ensign shirts.

[stevie_d_64]

Don’t forget the bomb tiles...

I’m inspired...I’m going to the store to get that game again...

Gracias...

[G8 Diplomat]

Al-Masri, which means Egyptian

That would be al-Misri. Misr = Egypt

Whenever they put their nationality at the end of their name like that, it's a pseudonym. Likewise, "Abu Sa'id" isn't his real name. Abu means "father of," and is usually followed by the name of their oldest son, or sometimes someone they admire. It's called their kuniyya name, and terrorists often use it to hide their real name. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Khabab al-Misri (another Egyptian), Abu Laith al-Libi (the Libyan), there was another Abu something-rather with the "last" name al-Jaza'iri (the Algerian). You get the picture....

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off

[Straight Vermonter]

Got another one.

[Mr. Silverback]

Thank you, Pakistan. Now go kill some more!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good news...thanks.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the info....so I see how they work to keep the infidels confused.

[StarCMC]

HOT DOG!!!! Great news!

[VaBthang4]

[BOBTHENAILER]

Like seeing them dropped.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Roggio is saying this is not yet confirmed:

Al Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan rumored killed in Pakistan

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Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan indicate that Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan, has been killed during the heavy fighting in Pakistan's tribal agency of Bajaur.

The report of Yazid's death is based on statements made by an unnamed senior Pakistani security official. Pakistani television claimed Abu Saeed al Masri was killed in fighting in Bajaur. Yazid is also known as Sheikh Saeed and Abu Saeed al Masri (the Egyptian).

But it is unclear if this Abu Saeed al Masri is the same person as Yazid. Other al Qaeda operatives go by the name of Sheikh Saeed, a senior US military intelligence official warned The Long War Journal.

[maine-iac7]

Whittle ‘em down - they must be scrapping the bottom of the barrel by now.

They are petrified by the drones -

[csvset]

Now I have to wonder, rumors say ISI is tipping off AQ to our efforts to catch/kill them. If that is true, I wonder if this was just a “lucky strike “ on the part of the Paki’s?

[auboy]

Bumped off. Good!