Al Qaeda Pakistan Chief 'Is Dead'

Sky News ^

[Sub-Driver]

Al Qaeda Pakistan Chief 'Is Dead'

11:42am UK, Friday January 09, 2009 The head of operations for al Qaeda in Pakistan and his lieutenant are believed to be dead, a US counter-terrorism official has said.

The militant group's operations chief Usama al Kini was thought to be responsible for high-profile terrorist attacks.

They included the Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad that killed 55 people in September and an unsuccessful attempt to kill Benazir Bhutto.

The former Pakistani Prime Minister was later assassinated in a separate attack.

"These deaths are a significant near-term degradation of al Qaeda's leadership," the unnamed official said.

Sky News' Asia correspondent Alex Crawford said if the report is true it will be a blow to the terrorist network operating in Pakistan and "a significant fillip to the Americans".

She added: "However, it is difficult if not impossible to verify the claims."

They follow increasing confidence in the Bush administration that al Qaeda's central command structure has been significantly weakened.

Kini and his dead lieutenant, Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, were both Kenyan-born.

They were on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorism suspects and had been indicted for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.

They were also believed to have trained operatives to travel to the United States and Europe.

[SueRae]

Happy New Year!! Way to go guys!

[Blue Highway]

Are you always this much of a butinsky? You certainly asked for it.

[r9etb]

Are you always this much of a butinsky?

Uh.... do you have an actual point? Or do you just like to butt in randomly?

[Blue Highway]

I didn’t appreciate you being a jerk about the (/your mom wiping your butt) remark. Filipp isn’t your every day word being used and I was suspect why they even chose to use it rather than fist. You came across as an a$$ for saying it the eway you did.

[r9etb]

I didn’t appreciate you being a jerk about the (/your mom wiping your butt) remark.

Apparently your diapers are in quite a twist this morning. Perhaps the problem is with you, not me.

The "/your mom mode" was meant as nothing more than a humorous reference to what everybody's mom told them time and again: "go look it up in the dictionary." I would guess that Robe understood it in the way it was meant.

You came across as an a$$ for saying it the eway you did.

What's that old saying about "four fingers pointing back at you?"

[Navy Patriot]

Good use of a Hellfire. We should use a lot more of them on a regular basis.

[Marysecretary]

He’s dead, Jim. Most wonderfully, completely, grandly dead.

[Marysecretary]

It’s only three fingers...

[STARWISE]

Two different sources, two different looking corpses

Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (aka Usama Al-Kini)

Wanted by the FBI:

Murder of U.S. Nationals outside the United States. Conspiracy to murder of U.S. Nationals outside the United States. Attack on a federal facility resulting in death.

Description:

Born February 19, 1976 in Mombasa, Kenya, Fahid Msalam is male, five-foot six-inches to five-foot eight-inches in height, weighs 160 to 170 pounds, with black curly hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion.

Aliases:

Fahid Mohammed Ally, Fahid Mohammed Ali Musalaam, Fahid Mohammed Ali Msalam, Fahid Muhamad Ali Salem, Mohammed Ally Msalam, Usama Al-Kini, Fahad Ally Msalam

Remarks:

Msalam sometimes wears a light beard or moustache and has, in the past, worked as a clothing vendor.

Caution:

Fahid Msalam was indicted on December 16, 1998, in the Southern District of New York, for his alleged involvement in the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, and for conspiring to kill U.S. nationals. He should be considered armed and dangerous.

Reward:

The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam.

[r9etb]

It’s only three fingers...

You're correct, of course.

However, given how hard he had to have worked to take offense at the original comment, I decided he must have done some magic with his thumb, too.

[Blue Highway]

The (/your mom mode) I never heard that phrase and I took it to mean you were going to pretend to be his mommy and hold his hand to have him look in the dictionary for him. Still that seems like a prick to me Im being serious.

About the 4 fingers pointing back at me, well I wasn't the one being a smart a$$ to someone that just asked a simple question/

[Blue Highway]

I’m double jointed you jerk. Suck on that one.

[r9etb]

[Blue Highway]

r9etb ^^^^

[Allegra]

Good use of a Hellfire. We should use a lot more of them on a regular basis.

I love the sound of those things. And the sound is even sweeter when you know it's being used to send some useless, slimebag terrorists to meet their 72 virgin goats.

[Marysecretary]

LOL. It’s easy for FReepers to get into flaming. I’ve had a few wars myself.

[BlueLancer]

He ain't dead, he's only resting.

He's pinin' for the fjords ...

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Never hint at what you really feel.
Teach the children quietly for, someday, sons and daughters
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