Posted on 11/22/2008 8:11:19 AM PST by DogBarkTree
Rashid Rauf, 27, who grew up in Birmingham, was killed along with at least three other militants in the attack on the house of a local tribesman in the North Waziristan area,
A US drone targeted the home in the village of Alikhel, part of a district known as a stronghold for al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
"The transatlantic bombing plot alleged mastermind Rashid Rauf was killed along with an Egyptian al-Qaeda operative in the US missile strike in North Waziristan," a senior Pakistani security official said.
Rauf, who has been on the run after escaping from a Pakistani jail nearly a year ago, was said to have played a key role in a liquid bomb plot allegedly targeting transatlantic airliners in 2006.
Rauf, a British national who used to live in Birmingham, escaped from Pakistani authorities after appearing before a judge in an Islamabad court in December last year. At the time, he could have faced extradition to Britain within weeks.
After the escape, Khalid Pervez, a city police official, said that Rauf managed to open his handcuffs and evade police guards taking him back to Adiala prison in the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
After the escape, 12 policemen were questioned and two had been accused of assisting the escape or negligence. Despite a huge manhunt, he was never recaptured.
Rauf was arrested in Pakistan in August 2006, after a tip-off from British intelligence, over alleged attempts to blow up 10 transatlantic jets.
News of the liquid bomb plot paralysed global air travel, prompting authorities to implement stringent security measures at airports around the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Buh bye Rauf Rauf.
“...attempts to blow up 10 transatlantic jets.”
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Another log for the fires of Hell.
Looked like a death-pale Osama Jr.
My only complaint about these strikes is that the perps die quickly. Every one of these terrorists should suffer like those trapped in the WTC before it fell.
He leaves behind a family of three sheep and two goats!
Could we get a look at THIS guys birth certificate? ...
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No, just a forged Certificate of Live Birth...he was born in Hawaii, you know....
Thank God, now we’ll all be able to get a bit more air for our lungs. That shnozz was sucking too many liters!
Excellent!
Spot on with that drone!......
That must make him British.
let's face it, when a hen is born in a stable it's a horse. Right?
Good riddance. Only millions more to go!
Dead muzzie bump!
Die hard, mutant.
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