Abu Khabab, you've been served!
Egyptian al Qaeda known to be operating in Pakistan’s tribal regions:
• Abu Khabab al Masri: Al Qaeda's Weapons of Mass Destruction expert and master bomb maker. He is also known as Also known as Midhat Mursi.
• Abdul Rahman al Masri al Maghribi: A senior al Qaeda military commander who is also believed to be Ayman al Zawahiri's son-in-law.
• Abu Ubaidah al Masri: A senior al Qaeda operative who served as the former operations chief in Kunar, Afghanistan.
• Sheikh Essa: An Egyptian cleric based out of North Waziristan who advocates expanding the Taliban's jihad in Pakistan. "Local adherents of the takfiri ideology, like Sadiq Noor and Abdul Khaliq, have grown strong and spread the word in North Waziristan." the Asia Times reported on Jan. 1. "Former members of jihadi outfits such as Jaish-i-Mohammed, Laskhar-i-Taiba and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have gathered in North Waziristan and declared Sheikh Essa their ideologue."
Sorry it didn’t format correctly....I know paragraphs are our friends...:-)
Zawahari is also from Egypt.
Looks like the bounty system is yielding results.
Good shooting US Navy! (or whoever...)
“US drones have launched several strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border targeting members of Osama bin Laden’s network, although Islamabad never confirms such attacks due to issues of national sovereignty.”
I just love that these backwards 6th century Muslim animals are being picked off by 21st century technology that they would have no hope of defending themselves against.
After getting Al Libi and this strike it looks like the intell on the ground is improving which is great. Guess we will have to see who we got this time,but obviously the target was top level Al Queda guys.
One of the rumored hits besides Al Libi last time was that Adam Ghadan was in that area and the Californian had not appeared in any videos since...so here’s hoping!
little bit more here...
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=032030120080228115836
btw - Did I miss something? Has the MSM reported the importance of getting al-Libi ?
“However, the officials claimed that there was a seminary near the house, which was used by the militants as a shelter.”
When are these people(religious (sp?))going to learn that you DON’T give permission for a bunch of radical/nutjobs to hideout/use your “seminary/orphanage/church/etc”? I’m sorry, but you’d think they’d learned by now....PC be d+@*$%! if you find their rathole, you take it out, end of discussion.
Their own fault for doing this, you reap what you sow.....
Good news in the morning! Brightens my day.
Any chance all four were there? Since there were four ‘guests’ taken out, per reports.
ping
I’ve been out of town quite a bit, does anyone know if that American terrorist from Marin Co. Calif., has been killed yet? I think his first name is Adam?
Where's Time magazine....that's 24 people???
And did the missile have PID before it launched? Were any prior efforts made to remove innocents? Why didn't they send an advance inquiry about the ratio of killers to toddlers, wives, and grandparents?
Wuterich probably caused this....maybe Tatum. Definitely, Chessani should be charged for not sending in an investigative team with this number of bodies.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967984/posts
Adam Gadahn Rumored Killed
The Long War Journal ^ | 2/9/2008 | Left Coast Republican
Posted on 02/10/2008 3:16:03 AM PST by Left Coast Republican
By Bill RoggioFebruary 8, 2008 6:49 PM Gadhan.jpg
Adam Gadahn.
One day after a Pakistani newspaper reported al Qaeda propagandist Adam Gadahn may have been killed in the same airstrike that killed al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al Libi, the rumor remains unconfirmed.
Speculation over Gadahn’s presence at the al Qaeda safe house in North Waziristan began on Jan. 29, the day of the airstrike. An unnamed US official denied Gadahn was killed in the strike. But on Feb. 7, The News reported, based on statements from Western sources, that Gadahn was killed in the airstrike.
Gadahn was believed to be en route to the village of Khushali Tari Khel to attend an “an important meeting with other senior al-Qaeda commanders for planning the so-called spring offensive against US and NATO troops in Afghanistan,” The News reported. Two other al Qaeda leaders, Abu Obeida Tawari al Obeid, a Saudi; and Abu Adel al Kuwaiti, were also reported killed in the North Waziristan airstrike.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/
Did a U.S. Airstrike Get The Big Z?
Media reports describe another U.S. airstrike within Pakistan, targeting a home that was a suspected Taliban safe house with foreign fighters.
Bill Roggio notes, “One report indicates an “al Qaeda fugitive from Egypt” was among those killed, sparking rumors that Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of the strike.”
But before we break out the party hats, Roggio also notes, “several senior Egyptian members of al Qaeda are known to operate in Pakistan’s tribal areas. These include Abu Khabab al Masri, Abu Ubaidah al Masri, Abdul Rahman al Masri al Maghribi, and Sheikh Essa. Abu Khabab, Abu Ubaidah, and Maghribi were believed to have been killed in the January 2006 Damadola airstrike but the reports were false.”
Keep your fingers crossed.
UPDATE: Two interesting items from the Asia Times, if true. One, allegedly the Predator drone came from Peshawar Airfield, making this a joint Pakistan-NATO operation. Two, the building was allegedly a militant compound disguised as a madrassa.
Campaign angle in all this? Well, the Democrats have looked increasingly silly, and have taken flak from non-conservative, clear-eyed observers of the war in Iraq (like the Washington Post) for insisting that the war is lost, no matter how much progress is made on the ground in Iraq. Another key part of both Hillary and Obama’s playbooks is endlessly moaning, “we’ve forgotten the real war, we’re losing the war in Afghanistan, we’ve been distracted from al-Qaeda.” Democrats looked silly when they claimed the Iraq buildup was distracting from fighting al-Qaeda, just as the U.S. and Pakistan captured Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
02/29 12:39 PM
Abu Khabab, you've been served!