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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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To: kattracks
We're ending this year in a great way. The bad guys are getting caught one by one. Osama is next, just wait!
In the mean time, God bless America, God bless President Bush. A real man is in charge, not those sissy rats!
81 posted on 12/31/2003 10:46:12 AM PST by Lucky2 (Before I die, I want Bill and Hillary tried for treason and jailed (executed) for their crimess.)
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To: nwctwx
It makes sense that this kind of thing would be announced in the Islamist press. If they did lose a guy, they would want their people to know about it so they could react accordingly--flee, destroy documents, etc.
82 posted on 12/31/2003 11:13:35 AM PST by Defiant (A metrosexual is a nancy-boy.)
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To: sheik yerbouty
Do you mean make hm squeal like Ned Beatty in "Deliverance" ??

Or would that be cruel and unusual punishment ? LOl
83 posted on 12/31/2003 11:18:33 AM PST by RightWingNut
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To: kattracks
Skeptical but hopeful. This guy is the brains behind AQ not Oshama. If he was captured without OBL it would make me wonder if OBL is still alive. Those two always stuck together.
84 posted on 12/31/2003 11:19:24 AM PST by armymarinemom (My Son Liberated the Honor Roll Students in Iraq)
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To: Rebelbase
Newsmax is overratted and overused here at FR.

I totally agree.

85 posted on 12/31/2003 11:20:25 AM PST by antaresequity
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To: armymarinemom
This guy is the brains behind AQ not Oshama. If he was captured without OBL it would make me wonder if OBL is still alive. Those two always stuck together.

No, they didn't supposedly get Al-Zawahiri, but his right-hand terrorist.

86 posted on 12/31/2003 11:22:30 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
These London Islamist sources have a fairly shoddy track record, primarily because they tend to repeat rumor and innuendo (like al-Qaeda being responsible for the summer blackout) as fact. They said that al-Khadr was dead too over the summer when it turned out that only his son had been killed by the Pakistani military and that he had managed to escape.

I would want some verification of this before coming to any conclusions, especially since this guy was supposedly in Iran as of last September. Maybe he's joined those "in custody" over there too ...
87 posted on 12/31/2003 1:21:39 PM PST by Angelus Errare
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To: Coop; Angelus Errare
Has this been confirmed?
88 posted on 12/31/2003 4:45:49 PM PST by Dog (Go Eagles!!!!!)
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To: jpl; kattracks; freeperfromnj; Mitchell; pokerbuddy2; NativeNewYorker
A NEW YEAR’S EVE 2003 ANTHRAX POP QUIZ

Which of the following contains the letters A-T-A-T (the order of the letters may vary) and has been associated with the anthrax mailings?

(1) The anthrax letter that contains over scored letters.

(2) Mohamed Atta -- the suspected pilot of the hijacked plane that slammed into the World Trade Center's North Tower Sept. 11.

(3) A DNA sequence: the variable-number tandem repeats (VNTR) in vrrA from Bacillus anthracis isolates.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

89 posted on 12/31/2003 5:47:23 PM PST by Van der Waals
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To: Dog
No, and until it is I would take it with a whole shaker of salt.
90 posted on 12/31/2003 5:59:08 PM PST by Angelus Errare
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To: kattracks
Very good news. Hope the noose is getting tighter!
91 posted on 12/31/2003 10:10:54 PM PST by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: Dog; Angelus Errare
Negative on the confirmation. My doubts have only increased since yesterday. Happy New Year to you both!
92 posted on 01/01/2004 7:59:44 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop; Angelus Errare
Happy New Year to you both !
93 posted on 01/01/2004 8:05:23 AM PST by Dog
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To: RightWingNut
For the jihadist, he would say "The pleasure is all mine". Give him lubricant with capsaicin.
94 posted on 01/01/2004 3:23:25 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: antaresequity
Newsmax is overratted and overused here at FR.

me three. David Limbaugh had an article there once about a movie about some colonel that some film festival REFUSED TO SHOW!!! OH NO!!!

so I looked at the festival, and every film was something like "a history of the CIA destabilizing gov'ts around the world" "how the US keeps the 3rd world down" "how the US sucks" "the US ruined the world" etc. So I emailed him and told him to check up before writing articles and he sent me a whiney reply about how someone he trusted gave him the story.

95 posted on 01/05/2004 1:49:41 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod (If God hadn't meant for them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep.)
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