Posted on 12/10/2009 4:53:21 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
A high-ranking Al Qaeda figure reportedly was killed Thursday in a U.S. drone aircraft attack in north Pakistan.
The attack, first reported by NBC News, was officially denied by Pakistani officials, though sources told Fox News that neither Usama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri were among those killed.
Pakistani media report six militants were killed in the attack, including four foreign fighters, a classification in the tribal areas that typically refers to Al Qaeda.
The attack was part of the expanded use of Predator drones recently authorized by the White House, sources told Fox News, though the drone attacks, which began during the Bush Administration, never have been officially confirmed because of political sensitivity in Pakistan.
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As far as I’m concerned, they’re all “number 2’s” to me...
If he thinks he needs to, 0bama will declare that his Muslim brethren, 0sama, was killed.
Some time just before the 2010 elections...
It’s OK if 0bama lies to us. We’re infidels.
/mark
genius idea. could actually quite work.
Al Qaeda #3 man is a dead end position.
I’m a bit surprised we have not heard of more middle and upper AQA, AQP being blown up in recent months by air strikes. Perhaps they are getting harder to pin point since a bit more emphasis within P is being placed on hunting down AQP and Paki Taliban.
I’ll bet you’re right. It’ll happen around September 11th....count on it.
I take that they were not read their rights. Fine by me. How would that go? “You have the right to....resemble a smoking hole in the ground.”
Thank goodness they got their ticket punched instead of their nose.
World leftists deeply saddened.
why don’t we pull all our folks out of Guantanamo (the prison not the whole place) and just level the prison until dead terrorists are bouncing with the rubble???
If Hellfires and Predators are good for terrorists on the other side of the world, why do we have to coddle every POS we’ve captured?
crazy country and world, we are allowed to obliterate terrorists in Afghanistan and Pak (sometimes) but all the ones at Gitmo have to be treated with kid gloves and now many of them will be brought to NYC for nutty trials with the loony left lawyers creating a field day for terror apologists and appeasers.
Was his miranda rights read? And what about his mandatory waffle?
LOL! I was going to say something like that!
Really, I want to hear they got #1. Maybe not so many want to advance into the top slot if they can get #1.
I’m steeled by your insight.
Bush does it - no.
Obama does it - yes
0bama will soon put an end to any Drone activity.
It's good to hear that somebody in the current administration has grasped the fact that we've been without a diplomatic component to this war since last January. The enemy aren't stupid - if we offer them a sanctuary they're going to take it. And there is no real compelling reason other than sanctuary for either Zawahiri or bin Laden to be in the area. Find them, fix them, destroy them. Apologize later.
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