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Reports: Airstrike kills suspect in jet bomb plot (Good Day Mate!)
msnbc ^ | 11/22/2008 | nbc news

Posted on 11/22/2008 5:42:49 AM PST by tobyhill

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed the alleged ringleader of a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jets, Pakistani television and intelligence officers said on Saturday.

Rashid Rauf, a British Islamist militant with links to al-Qaida, was among five victims of an attack launched by a suspected U.S. pilotless drone aircraft in the North Waziristan tribal region.

Intelligence officers in the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Rauf, who escaped from custody outside an Islamabad court last December, had been killed. However, there was no official confirmation.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedapakistan; islam; jihad; missiles; pakistan; uav

1 posted on 11/22/2008 5:42:49 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

That’s the kind of due process I can believe in.


2 posted on 11/22/2008 5:54:54 AM PST by Night Hides Not (McCain is Lucy, McCainiacs are Charlie Brown, & the football was a secure border...before Sarah.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Ditto to that !!


3 posted on 11/22/2008 6:02:45 AM PST by Dustbunny (Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
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To: tobyhill

Mrs. Rashid Rauf recently said, “I remember the good old days when the only deadly thing that fell from the sky was Eagle guono.”


4 posted on 11/22/2008 6:09:41 AM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: tobyhill

Too bad we can’t get the military to do a missile strike on certain Americans who were ringleaders of a plot to blow up government buildings and kill cops and military personnel. You know, the creeps who are now comfortably ensconced as tenured “change agents” in academia, education, and law firms.


5 posted on 11/22/2008 6:16:44 AM PST by hellbender
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To: tobyhill

The guy is dead, but it is only a “suspected” missile strike?


6 posted on 11/22/2008 6:50:42 AM PST by CPOSharky (Coming up: Four years of Jimmuh Cartah on crack.)
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To: CPOSharky
The suspect is suspected of being dead from a suspected missile strike. The suspected Pakistani Government is suspected to be waited to confirm if the suspect from the suspected missile strike is dead which is highly suspected at this time.
7 posted on 11/22/2008 6:55:40 AM PST by tobyhill (Why did Obama not cross the road? He has no guts!)
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To: tobyhill
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed the alleged ringleader ...

But they are apparently certain that someone was killed by something.

8 posted on 11/22/2008 7:14:36 AM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: tobyhill

Flashback on Rauf’s “escape”, arranged by the ISI:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/28/pakistan.world1


9 posted on 11/22/2008 7:27:24 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: CPOSharky
The guy is dead, but it is only a “suspected” missile strike?

Yes, it still is against international law to invade another country to remove trash. the old dirt bag blew himself up playing with one of those belts. To bad, rub a little pig fat on the next belt.

10 posted on 11/22/2008 7:53:02 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts! Republicans do!)
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To: tobyhill

These bad boys are safer in downtown London than they are in the ‘wilds’of Pakistan.


11 posted on 11/22/2008 8:11:08 AM PST by blam
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