MANZOOR: Al Qaeda No. 2 hiding in Quetta

washingtontimes.com ^ | May 12, 2009 | Jasmeen Manzoor

[Free ThinkerNY]

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, the most wanted terrorist after Osama bin Laden, with a $25 million bounty on his head, is holed up near Quetta, Pakistan, according to a highly placed Pakistani intelligence source.

The Egyptian-born radical is a master of disguise, a meticulous planner and the deadliest of terrorists. Yet Pakistani intelligence sources say he roams openly and with impunity in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. While Predators continue to strike at a variety of key terror targets in that area, our source tells us that the CIA and other intelligence agencies cannot get al-Zawahiri, though they usually know for the most part where he is.

Al-Zawahiri's recent movements can be tracked with some specificity. He was positively identified in the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan in June 2008, and the locations pinpointed where he conducted high-level meetings.

Subsequent U.S. drone attacks forced him to move to South Waziristan Agency in August 2008. Thereafter he moved south to Baluchistan and crossed into Afghanistan from the border city of Zhob. He returned to the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) sometime in December or January. A well-placed source in Pakistan's intelligence service tells me that he may have relocated recently to somewhere outside of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan.

[Cindy]

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“Wanted
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[TaMoDee]

He travels with Egyptian bodyguards and the gvt can’t find him? Give me a break! An Egyptian speaking his brand of Arabic is like an American trying to hide his brand of English in England -—— no way can he hide. No wonder he moves around. I can see a drone in his future!

[jakerobins]

WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOR?????

[Steely Tom]

He should come out and claim your faculty position at an Ivy League University.

[csvset]

Please tell me they aren’t hoping to “ arrest” him. Drop a half dozen JDAMs on top of him and be done with it.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Bet he’s gone now

[j-damn]

*The Egyptian-born radical is a master of disguise*

Ha! So find the only dude in Quetta with a pair of sunglasses with the nose/mustache attached—it’s bound to be him.

Or the only dude without the big fookin’ beard. Either way...

[JohnBovenmyer]

JDAMs? Obama might drop him some bailout $. Or to put it another way, even if ♚☻ finds ⊗ he'll first ☎☮ then ☺☭, but he'll never ✈ ☠ ☢ or ☣ to ⊗.