Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan - funny. He doesn't look Swedish.
Posted on 01/08/2009 4:07:53 PM PST by gandalftb
A New Year's CIA strike in northern Pakistan killed two top al-Qaeda terrorists long sought by the United States, including the man believed to be behind September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott hotel in the Pakistani capital, U.S. counterterrorism officials told The Washingon Post today.
Agency officials determined in recent days that among the dead in the Jan. 1 missile strike were a Kenyan national who used the name Usama al-Kini and who was described as al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan and his lieutenant, identified as Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, the sources said. Both men were associated with a string of suicide attacks in Pakistan in recent months and were also on the FBI's most-wanted list for ties to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.
Kini, who had been pursued by U.S. law enforcement agencies on two continents for a decade, was the eighth senior al-Qaeda leader killed in clandestine CIA strikes since July, the officials said.
Kini, whose given name was Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, had trained terrorists in Africa in the 1990s and served as a central planner of the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he became al-Qaeda's emir of Afghanistan's Zabul Province, and later shifted between Afghanistan, Pakistan and East Africa, planning suicide missions, training operatives and raising money, U.S. officials said.
He became al-Qaeda's operations director for Pakistan in 2007 and was responsible for at least seven suicide attacks, the sources said. These included a failed assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto, the late Pakistani prime minister, in October of that year, and the Sept. 16, 2008, car-bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel. That attack killed 53 people.
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Bush has two weeks to take out Osama and al-Zawahri.
Should auld acquaintance be blowed up...
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They're dug in like Georgia ticks.
Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan - funny. He doesn't look Swedish.
How about that, a Kenyan national. Those guys are popping up all over the place these days.
and the jews have 2 weeks to take out reactors in iran. neither will happen i fear
NYPD Eyes Disrupting Cell Phones in Event of Terrorist Attack
Fox News | 08 Jan 2009 | Judith Miller
Posted on 01/08/2009 12:55:39 PM PST by BGHater
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Putin: Russia to resume gas exports under EU monitors (including Ukraine)
Reuters | Thu Jan 8, 2009
Posted on 01/08/2009 4:15:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Happy fire. It’s a beautiful thing sometimes.
Our guys are getting some really quality intel this last 3-4 months. It’d be really sweet to nail one of the Haqqanis or a scumbag like Meshud before the current Administration leaves office.
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam
Date of Birth: 19 February 1976
Place of Birth: Mombasa, Kenya
Height: 5′6″-5′8″ (168-173 cm)
Weight: 180-190 lbs (82-86 kg)
Hair: Black, curly
Eyes: Brown
Build: Medium
Nationality: Kenyan
Languages: Swahili, Arabic, English
Obama al-Kinky. what a funny name for a terrorist. Perhaps he is from the PushyQueer Tribe of UppaYouPushtan.
As for the Kenyan, a relative of O’s perhaps. Traded a 6x9 stick hut for a camel’s rear.
It’s a new year and the gloves are off, said the proctologist.
At least we know one person who was born in Mombasa, Kenya.
Ha! We know one that admitted to it (he’s dead, Jim), and one that won’t say...
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