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Top al Qaeda strategist may have been killed in Pakistan

PESHAWAR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN | Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:55am EDT

(Reuters) - Abu Yahya al-Libi, one of al Qaeda’s top strategists and seen as the most prominent figure in the network after leader Ayman al Zawahri, may have been killed in a drone strike in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Tuesday.

If his death is confirmed it would be the biggest blow to al Qaeda since U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in Pakistan in May 2011.

U.S. sources said Libi, a Libyan cleric with a degree in chemistry who has survived previous drone attacks, was a target of a strike early on Monday in the North Waziristan tribal region, home to some of the world’s most notorious militant groups.

Some U.S. officials describe Libi, whose real name is Mohamed Hassan Qaid, as number two to al Zawahri, the former Egyptian doctor who took over al Qaeda after bin Laden’s death.

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516 posted on 06/04/2012 10:36:31 PM PDT by LucyT
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“As we’ve discussed, I heard something that troubled me deeply, and still does. As Obama’s approval rating dips, desperation becomes more of an issue. There is much discussion about the racial divide in this country, and as we talked about, there is an anticipation over the Trayvon Martin case. - Depending on how things go, they are determined to inflate this into a much larger issue, and plan to fan the flames of racial division to cause a much broader divide - resulting in a chaos on the streets.

"But a back-up plan might be in the works. - Remember, this is just rumor, just talk, but it makes sense. - Something that would cause deep sympathy for Obama and even the First Family - a false flag operation where Obama or his family would not be in any actual danger, - but it would appear that way. - Some sort of a threat or incident against them carried out by a person or group fitting the fictitious threat categories identified earlier.

"Perhaps by a pro-Second Amendment, Constitutionalist, and racist as well - making the most out of the fantasy threats to our country. - Something that will fool a whole lot of people and justify police-state like practices. - Something that will change the hearts and minds of as many people as possible, perhaps convincing them that there is a danger and Obama is right. Just the thought of such a thing is chilling."

"Concluding (with) quote by Adolph Hitler’s Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels: “The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”"

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517 posted on 06/20/2012 5:49:43 PM PDT by LucyT
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