Posted on 08/21/2018 8:12:09 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
U.S. officials confirmed that the man considered the most dangerous terrorist in the world after Osama bin Laden and a top al-Qaeda bomb-maker was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2017.
Ibrahim al-Asiri, a 37-year-old from Saudi Arabia who is responsible for creating a host of bombs — including the underwear bomb intended to take down a flight from Detroit to Amsterdam on Christmas in 2009 — escaped U.S. strikes in the past, despite a $5 million bounty for his capture since 2014, according to reports by Fox News.
Al-Asiri and several associates were standing beside his car when a drone struck and killed him, a tribal leader and a source linked to the deadliest affiliate of al-Qaeda in Yemen told The Associated Press on Friday. Al-Qaeda did not memorialize al-Asiri’s death as they normally would on militant sites, and instead is focusing on identifying potential spies who could have leaked his whereabouts and contributed to his death, Fox News reported.
The top al-Qaeda bomb-maker consistently developed more sophisticated bombs to get past airport security, including explosive devices that could fit into devices such as laptops, cell phones and ink cartridges. His efforts resulted in increased TSA measures to prohibit electronics on some flights to the U.S. and intelligence officials believe he might have been developing other such explosives at the time of his death.
"A good chunk of what you have to take out of your bag and what has to be screened is because of Asiri and his capabilities of putting explosives in very difficult to find places," former CIA deputy director Michael Morell told CBS News.
What fortunate timing! The MSM finally starts reporting on the civilans slaughtered in this fiasco. Then - we killed a terrorist mastermind! We’re heroes!
Sure the guy was clever and definitely evil, but not all of his ideas panned out. For example, there were the tampon grenade and the enemalotov cocktail.
Al-Alawaki got cocky and we blew it off. Same for his son and a bunch of other bastards.
Now this bomber got it by a bomb. How poetic. Wonder who the others were with him who got croaked. They could be very important fugitives.
Al Zawahari must be getting lonely by now since almost all his top men have been “topped” by our drones. We will eventually get him. Just watch “Zero Dark Thirty” to see how patient we are.
Obama let Bin Laden slip away twice. It isn’t going to happen to Al Zawahiri under Trump’s command. He’s not a basement dwelling coward like Obama was.
But I do “DRONE” on, but with good intentions.
Hey that’s scary but not TERRIBLY scary, LOL
lol
Ayman al-Zawahiri - yea where did that guy go? Lot’s of rumors but nothing substantial. Your theory is as good as the next one at this point.
It’s cute that you think Osama died in that raid.
Looks Jewish.
If you could see her through my eyes....
Looks like Al-Julhara, from "Jewel of the Nile" ...
Paulie called in sick?
Wrote a song about It ,,,
Killer Drones up in the Sky
You Bad Guys are gonna Die!
.
To the tune of
Green Beret.
This is OLD NEWS. Don’t you remember? Who could possibly forget.
President Trump tweeted about it.
The WH press office released a now-famous photo of President Trump in the situation room, surrounded by the joint chiefs of staff and the enitre cabinet, taken at the precise moment of impact.
Every newspaper in the World ran with that photo, and the story, on the front page above the fold.
It was the lead story on every cable news channel for the next 48 hours straight.
Headlines hailed President Trump as “The Man Who Got Ibrahim al-Asiri”
Thank You Very Much!
Huh. Another one “from Saudi Arabia”
I wouldn’t be the first — nor will I be the last — to assert that, for all our f*king around and dying in the ‘stans, we totally turned a blind eye to a VERY a choice, PRIMARY target.
The House of Saud needs a thundering shot across the bow to quit mucking about accumulating opulent wealth and get on about cleaning up their festering, street-level jihadist militancy.
And now, what's left of Asiri are chunks in a bag.
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