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Plot Thins In The War On Terror
IBD Editorials ^ | November 24, 2008

Posted on 11/24/2008 6:06:19 PM PST by Kaslin

The War: The killing of al-Qaida's 2006 airline bomb plot planner by an American Predator drone is only the latest terror-war victory. From Anbar to Waziristan, they're dropping like flies.


Rashid Rauf, mastermind of the 2006 trans-Atlantic airline bomb plot, became the latest al-Qaida casualty when a missile launched from a Predator drone struck a tribesman's house in the village of Alikhel in North Waziristan.

If Rauf believed he had found sanctuary there, he was sadly mistaken. There have been at least 20 such strikes in the last three months as the Bush administration seeks to thwart the ability of militants to fuel the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and deny al-Qaida plotters a safe haven.

The attack on Rauf, which also killed Egyptian al-Qaida operative Abu Zubair al-Masri, came within days of another strike in the Bannu district, deeper in Pakistani territory and outside the lawless tribal areas.

Among those killed in that attack, according to Radio Australia, was Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, an Arab whom U.S. intelligence officials identified as the main link between al-Qaida's senior command and Taliban networks in the Pakistani border region.

Rauf was the architect of the "liquid bomb" plot that now forces travelers to limit fluids to 3.5 ounces in carry-on baggies. He was arrested in 2006 in Pakistan in the bomb plot and was headed back to jail in Islamabad after an extradition hearing, when authorities allowed him to stop and pray at a mosque uncuffed.

The plot targeted seven flights from Heathrow Airport in London to New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal operated by United Airlines, Air Canada and American Airlines. The plan was for different passengers to carry peroxide-based liquid explosive in drinks and other containers and detonators disguised as electronic devices and combine them on board.

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TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuzubairalmasri; afghanistan; alqaeda; alqaida; ibd; islam; jihad; pakistan; plot; predatordrones; rashidrauf; taliban; terrism; terrorism; waronterror; wot

1 posted on 11/24/2008 6:06:19 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This keeps up the Democrats will have virtually no friends they can turn to in Pakistan.


2 posted on 11/24/2008 6:09:15 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin
Good time for Zer0bama to surrender.

God, I fear for this country.

3 posted on 11/24/2008 6:14:22 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: Kaslin

Wont see this on MSM.


4 posted on 11/24/2008 6:20:14 PM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: Kaslin
I love the Hellfire solution...

And so appropriately named -- because that's where it sends 'em!



               Sheik Yassin's last ride...




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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
www.AnySoldier.com

5 posted on 11/24/2008 6:22:34 PM PST by JCG
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To: Kaslin

“The War: The killing of al-Qaida’s 2006 airline bomb plot planner by an American Predator drone is only the latest terror-war victory. From Anbar to Waziristan, they’re dropping like flies”.

A word of advice to would be terrorist bombers:

Our bombs are better than your bombs. If you mess with us, we will seek you out. You will learn firsthand how much better our bombs are.

And just a little reminder:

PAYBACKS ARE A BITCH.


6 posted on 11/24/2008 6:24:24 PM PST by factoryrat (Better living through American Industrial Might.)
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To: Kaslin

While Obama was talking about invading Pakistan, Bush was doing it. Wonder what Obama is going to do when he rushes in and violates one of our few Islamic allies (if there is such a thing), alienates the entire Ilamic world, and discovers that Osama has been dead for a few years?


7 posted on 11/24/2008 6:24:45 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: FatherofFive

I’m sure most of us feel more vulnrable now than ever in thier lives. I have NO faith in our government or the mental midgets in it. A sad time for America. All we can do now is duck!


8 posted on 11/24/2008 6:32:30 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( When CHANGE comes let me know, I'll put my tin foil hat on and sit in front of myTV)
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To: CPT Clay

“won’t see this on MSM”...sure you will. They will be condemning the U.S. for the attacks deep in sovereign Pakistani and Warzistani territory.


9 posted on 11/24/2008 6:35:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ronnie raygun

Duck? We can do more than that. The Framers left us the Second Amendment for a reason and it wasn’t to go duck-hunting.


10 posted on 11/24/2008 6:44:10 PM PST by Longtom
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To: Longtom

If Osama is dead, how long do you think it will be before Obama’s administration blabs it out that the Bush administration kept it a secret?


11 posted on 11/24/2008 6:53:32 PM PST by princess leah
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To: Kaslin

Journalism at it’s best. A very uplifting article.


12 posted on 11/24/2008 7:02:54 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: Kaslin

ha ha the d*ck head is dead have fun in hell


13 posted on 11/24/2008 7:06:15 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: princess leah
The longer we can keep Osama’s followers thinking he is hiding in a cave unable to give them encouragement to keep fighting the infidel the better. Once it is confirmed he is dead then he becomes a martyr and they will work to avenge his death.
14 posted on 11/24/2008 7:16:53 PM PST by eggman (Obama's Spread the Wealth will work just as well as Spread the Liabilities (sub-prime mortgages))
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To: muawiyah

BOOM!


15 posted on 11/27/2008 7:17:23 AM PST by Karliner ("Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. DDE)
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