Posted on 02/05/2008 4:44:09 AM PST by Dog
Kuwait City, 5 Feb. (AKI) - The US air raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Abu Layth al-Libi in Pakistan is reported to have also killed three other leaders from the terrorist network.
According to the Kuwaiti daily, al-Watan, two Kuwaitis and a Libyan also died in the missile attack conducted by a Predator aircraft on January 25 in Mir Ali, in North Waziristan on the border of Afghanistan.
The daily said the attack was aimed at what was believed to have been an al-Qaeda summit meeting. Abu Obeida Tawari al-Obeidi and Abu Adel al-Kuwaiti were reportedly there with al-Libi.
Abu Adel al-Kuwaiti came from Saudi Arabia but always lived in Kuwait.
Mubarak al-Badhali, a Kuwaiti supporter of Islamic fundamentalism, remembers him well.
"In 2003 he asked me how he could reach Iraq, but I did not want to help him to get to Afghanistan so first he had to go to Iran where he stayed around a month," said Badhali.
"Then he went to Syria where he stayed two weeks and from there he tried unsuccessfully to enter Iraq," he said. "After that he decided to go to Afghanistan.
"He was welcomed on the border by the imam of a mosque that took him to Waziristan (in northern Pakistan)."
According to well-informed sources, quoted in the Arab newpaper, al Hayat, al-Libi was the leader of an al-Qaeda delegation that reportedly met the Pakistani Taliban leader, Beitallah Mehsoud, whom intelligence services blame for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
He was accompanied at the meeting by a senior Libyan al-Qaeda leader, Abdel Ghaffar al-Darnawi.
He was said to be responsible for establishing a link with Iran and moved to Afghanistan only eight months before the air raid to fight on the front line against the Americans.
The Pakistan government has said very little about the US attack which was widely regarded as a strategic victory against al-Qaeda.
If number 1 & 2 remain isolated because all of their would be intermediaries are dead, then number 1 & 2 are left to die in their cave.
Lovely news to start the morning
Thanks :0)
Certainly was a lot of bang for the buck!
Scratch one leadership node...3 more to go.
Abdel Ghaffar al-Darnawi.
Cheers!
BTTT
‘Local’ Saudis killed with Libi
Tawari Rakhis Al-Mutairi. Jeepers, I need a scorecard to keep up with these guys.
Four-on-a-match is asking for it.
So the title is wrong, four Al Qaeda were killed.
The third man!
The best thing about this is it means we have spies in high AQ positions.
See who “had a cold” and couldn’t make the meeting.
You can bet AQ is wondering who dropped the dime.
Is this name on any of your lists?
No, but it is interesting that al-Libi, who was an envoy between AQ leadership and AQ in the Maghreb, was meeting with Darnawi.
Do they have something big going in North Africa? Or is this just routine for them?
Chalk three (or is it four?) up to the GOOD GUYS!
BTTT!
Four.
Heh heh heh. Hopefully a circular firing squad is being formed as we type...
Amen..Good News!
I’d also consider the easy: Kuwaiti or Libyan intel let the U.S. get rid of their local trouble-makers.
It’s not as though these thugs were pristine examples of citizenship in whatever land they domiciled previously!
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