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To: callmejoe
Interesting that most of UBL and Zawahiri's AQ colleagues in the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA) in Pakistan where they are probably hiding (besides fellow Arabs) are Chechens and Uzbeks.

Aren't many of them Yemeni as well? I thought I read that....somewhere.

4,034 posted on 08/24/2004 5:57:25 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

"Aren't many of them Yemeni as well? I thought I read that....somewhere."

I'd imagine he'd have the "homeboys" with him. Most of the non-Taliban types are probably Arabs (including Saudis, Yemenis, Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians, etc)and then the next biggest non-Arab groups are probably Chechens and Uzbeks. But no one really knows. Hard to do a census in those areas. That area (Waziristan/FATA) is like the "Wild West" of the mid-1800s here in the U.S. Pakistan has about as much control there as Custer did in what was nominally American territory.

BTW, not to bring up Shukrijumah's ethnicity again . . .

but if Adnan isn't technically Saudi, UBL isn't either.
His father's family is originally Yemeni and his mother was Syrian. The reality of his background doesn't matter, only the perception.


4,046 posted on 08/24/2004 6:35:02 PM PDT by callmejoe
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