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Bin Laden Son Killed in Pakistan
NPR ^ | 7/22/2009 | Mary Louise Kelly

Posted on 07/22/2009 5:54:01 PM PDT by America2012

U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden — a son of Osama bin Laden — has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan.

Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan, according to former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell.

It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; gwot; pakistan; saad; saadbinladen; terrorism; tm; waronterror; wot
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Previously...a Snapshot in Time:

LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "U.S. STRIKES TALIBAN CAMP IN SOUTH WAZIRISTAN" by Bill Roggio (September 17, 2008, 11:13 am)

DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN MAKES FIFTH VISIT TO PAKISTAN" by Gerry J. Gilmore (September 16, 2008)

41 posted on 07/22/2009 7:07:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: America2012

probably not the son that was married to the cougar? can someone post a pic of the cougar? I’m bad with names.


42 posted on 07/22/2009 7:15:24 PM PDT by isom35
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To: Velveeta

Good shooting.


43 posted on 07/22/2009 7:42:00 PM PDT by Godzilla (TEA: Taxed Enough Already)
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To: Godzilla

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44 posted on 07/22/2009 7:45:15 PM PDT by slapshot (""USAF- when you absolutely, positively need it delivered on target, on time, right away)
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To: isom35

Omar and wife

45 posted on 07/22/2009 7:54:37 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Godzilla

You betcha!


46 posted on 07/22/2009 7:55:06 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Nervous Tick

LOL


47 posted on 07/22/2009 8:04:36 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Cindy
I agree, Saad was spotted with his entourage in March in Swat and has been very, very careful to stay out of drone areas.

There has been no AQ elint traffic about his possible demise, which would be very unlikely for someone second in command to AQ.

Saad has disappeared, true, but so has Gadahn, and we know he is alive.

I remain skeptical and lean towards the bin Ladens having gone to Yemen.

48 posted on 07/22/2009 8:21:54 PM PDT by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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To: gandalftb

...and I agree with you and Yemen is a possibility...southern Yemen, seems to be more active, gandalfb only from what I see on the internet — no first hand knowledge.

There was an interesting little video with Hamza bin Laden in September 2008 and I wondered though, if maybe UBL symbolically was either introducing Hamza formally as a bin Laden jihadi and/or if Hamza was replacing someone. I don’t know.


49 posted on 07/22/2009 8:31:47 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta

Omar is still (at least what is seen on the internet) a “peace activist.”


50 posted on 07/22/2009 8:32:54 PM PDT by Cindy
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Hamza at the time was too young to step up to AQ leadership. Saad has been portrayed as a minor player in AQ, which is nonsense, he was second in command after Zawahiri and managed all UBL and Z communications. His loss would be quickly noticed by us.

Frankly, we were offered Saad and Zarqawi back in 2003 by the Iranians if we would give up the MEK Iranian rebels that we captured in Iraq. We could have unraveled AQ and saved a lot of soldiers lives if we had. To preserve our covert ops on Iran, we passed on Saad, not something you would do for a "minor player" as Saad is called.

51 posted on 07/22/2009 8:51:44 PM PDT by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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To: AUH2O Repub

Will he court martial whoever is responsible?

I wouldn’t put it past him.


52 posted on 07/22/2009 9:25:53 PM PDT by Califreak (I can't answer that in the abstract)
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To: America2012

When you get to hell, tell your dad hello for me


53 posted on 07/22/2009 10:05:37 PM PDT by McCloud-Strife ( USA 1776-2008)
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Targeted Assassinations [Mona Charen]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWRmZTdlYmIxMDRhOTIxYzgwZmI5OTY2Y2Q2YTE2Yzc=

“From the AP:

Bin Laden son may have been killed

Saad bin Laden, a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, may have been killed in a U.S. airstrike, U.S. officials said Thursday. The son was likely killed in Pakistan in the last several months, approximately in late spring, said a counterterrorism official, one of three Obama administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.”

This is shocking. The Obama Administration is carrying out a secret policy of targeted assassinations. They are going after Al Qaeda suspects. Was Congress thoroughly briefed on the details of this hit — time, date, plan of attack? — before the drones were deployed? This is an obvious violation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the 2008 Democratic Party Platform.

We need hearings and a special prosecutor.


54 posted on 07/24/2009 5:43:29 AM PDT by Valin
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To: Valin

lol


55 posted on 07/24/2009 5:57:56 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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Note:Photo included.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/07/pakistani_jihadis_de.php

“Pakistani jihadis deny Osama bin Laden’s son killed”
By BILL ROGGIO
July 24, 2009 8:22 AM

SNIPPET: “Pakistani terrorists with close links to al Qaeda denied that Osama bin Laden’s son was killed in a US airstrike earlier this year.

“Taliban and Punjabi militant commanders” who are in “close association with Arabs” told The News that while the US air campaign has hit the terror network hard, Osama’s son Sa’ad bin Laden was neither killed nor wounded during strikes this year. The commanders did not disclose their names.

“There is no doubt that we lost some of our well-trained and senior people in the US drone attacks in tribal areas, but I can say for sure that Sheikh Osama and his family members were never hurt in any of these strikes,” one Pakistani Taliban commander said.

“Had Sa’ad or anybody else of his family been injured or killed anywhere in Pakistan and Afghanistan, at least we would have been aware of that,” a Punjabi extremist leader told the news agency. The Punjabi commander said he is responsible for looking after wounded Arab fighters, and said his friends had recently met with Sa’ad.

“If they [the US] were true in their claim, they should provide accurate information when and where they killed Sa’ad,” the Punjabi commander continued.

The jihadi commanders said Sa’ad was not a senior leader in al Qaeda, but then went on to say he is leading al Qaeda fighters in battle in Afghanistan.

US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal on July 22 that it was highly likely that Sa’ad was killed in a strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas earlier this year. The officials would not disclose the location or the date of Sa’ad’s death, nor did they indicate they were in possession of his remains.”


56 posted on 07/25/2009 1:11:32 AM PDT by Cindy
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