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Report: Al Qaeda Big Arrested
NewsMax.com ^ | 12/31/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 12/31/2003 9:25:18 AM PST by kattracks

The top deputy of al Qaeda number two-man Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been arrested, according to "Islamist sources in London" cited by the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute on Thursday.

"Abdallah Muhammed Rajab Abd al-Rahman, aka Ahmad Hassan Abu Al-Khir, who is in charge of al Qaeda finances and the right hand man of Ayman Al Zawahiri, has been arrested," MEMRI said.

"Abu Al-Khir was previously sentenced to death in absentia in Egypt," the news service said, based on translations of a report earlier this week in the London-based newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

In an audiotape released two weeks ago, Al Zawahiri warned of new al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. and boasted, "The American collapse has started to become a reality ... in Afghanistan. The forces of Islam and Jihad are starting to chase the crusaders and the hypocrites of Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and the Arab peninsula."



TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alkhir; alqaeda; alzawahiri; captured; dean; fsh604; moneytrail
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1 posted on 12/31/2003 9:25:18 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
BTTT!!
2 posted on 12/31/2003 9:26:37 AM PST by smiley
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To: kattracks; Shermy; pokerbuddy2; Van der Waals
Whoa! If this turns out to be true, this is friggin huge.
3 posted on 12/31/2003 9:27:22 AM PST by jpl
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To: kattracks
Hope it's true!
4 posted on 12/31/2003 9:27:34 AM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: kattracks
Was he holding the Farmer's Almanac?
5 posted on 12/31/2003 9:27:53 AM PST by pettifogger
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To: kattracks
HUGE BUMP !! Excellent news... no doubt HE will have some good info to share with us!! (i.e., where, EXACTLY, are Al-Zawahiri and bin Laden?)
6 posted on 12/31/2003 9:28:10 AM PST by BagCamAddict (Tell the Troops: DO NOT TRUST ANY IRAQI WHO IS 40 POUNDS OVERWEIGHT !!)
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To: kattracks
Great news. My eye was drawn immediatley to Al-Zawahiri's name -- for a minute there, I thought they got him
7 posted on 12/31/2003 9:28:11 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: kattracks
Let's hope we can "persuade" him to talk...


8 posted on 12/31/2003 9:28:22 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: kattracks; Dog; Angelus Errare
I hope we see it on a more reputable source soon.
9 posted on 12/31/2003 9:28:31 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: kattracks
Alleluia!
10 posted on 12/31/2003 9:28:56 AM PST by jerseygirl
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To: kattracks
Great! Follow the money....
11 posted on 12/31/2003 9:29:26 AM PST by b4its2late (Pinging FReepers {except Arthur McGowan} Since May 16, 1999.)
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To: Coop


"I'm deeply saddened."
12 posted on 12/31/2003 9:29:28 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (You know how those liberals are. Two's Company but three is a fundraiser.)
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To: kattracks
Abdallah Muhammed Rajab Abd al-Rahman, aka Ahmad Hassan Abu Al-Khir

I often wonder why they bother with aliases, since to at least my western ears, it's all a blur.

13 posted on 12/31/2003 9:29:30 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: pettifogger
He was - but - President Bush knew where he was all along and was just waiting for New Years Eve to make this announcement so, its no big deal.
14 posted on 12/31/2003 9:29:38 AM PST by capydick (Where did all these Useful Idiots come from?)
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To: pettifogger
>Was he holding the Farmer's Almanac?

Those freakin almanac readers are going to learn whats what.

15 posted on 12/31/2003 9:29:41 AM PST by Dialup Llama
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To: kattracks
The forces of Islam and Jihad are starting to chase the crusaders and the hypocrites of Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and the Arab peninsula."

Sounds like FR's intermittent Balkan poster. Europe trembles.

16 posted on 12/31/2003 9:30:13 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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"Abdallah Muhammed Rajab Abd al-Rahman, aka Ahmad Hassan Abu Al-Khir"

Good Lord! How in the world do we keep up with these people??????
17 posted on 12/31/2003 9:30:27 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (You know how those liberals are. Two's Company but three is a fundraiser.)
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To: Coop
Yes, let's hope it is true cause I can't stop singing Queen's "Another one bites the dust."
18 posted on 12/31/2003 9:30:33 AM PST by Quilla
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To: capydick
LOL
19 posted on 12/31/2003 9:31:05 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (You know how those liberals are. Two's Company but three is a fundraiser.)
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To: kattracks
Who, what, when, where, and how?
20 posted on 12/31/2003 9:31:35 AM PST by Marylander
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