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Two-Year Manhunt Led to Awlaki Death (Underwear/parcel bomb maker also killed in strike?)
NY Times ^ | 9/30/11 | Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth.

Posted on 09/30/2011 7:15:49 PM PDT by jimbo123

Anwar al-Awlaki did not leave much of a trail, frustrating the American and Yemeni intelligence officials pursuing him over the last two years.

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United States officials said that Friday’s strike may also have killed Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, a Saudi bomb maker responsible for the weapon carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber in the jetliner plot. He is also thought to have built the printer-cartridge bombs that, 10 months later, were intended to be put on cargo planes headed to the United States. Neither of those plots were successful.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdulmutallab; anwaralawlaki; ibrahimhassanalasiri; muslim; rop; saudiarabia; yemen
3 dirty muslim terrorists are burning in hell.
1 posted on 09/30/2011 7:15:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

well, the Ft. Hood muzzie killer was successful....thanks to Obama PC.


2 posted on 09/30/2011 7:33:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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"3 dirty muslim terrorists are burning in hell."

I have it on good authority that Awlaki is, indeed, in paradise. When he arrived there, he was met by one virgin, she's seventy-two years old and looks just like Janet Reno. And that, by the way, is why she's still a virgin.

3 posted on 09/30/2011 7:34:07 PM PDT by davisfh
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Anwar al-Awlaki did not leave much of a trail,

Well, now he's upgraded to a smudge on the desert floor. :)

4 posted on 09/30/2011 9:04:15 PM PDT by 300winmag (Overkill Never Fails)
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Anwar al-Awlaki did not leave much of a trail,

Well, now he's upgraded to a smudge on the desert floor. :)

5 posted on 09/30/2011 9:04:55 PM PDT by 300winmag (Overkill Never Fails)
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6 posted on 09/30/2011 9:05:17 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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