Posted on 12/28/2009 10:39:46 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The radical US cleric who is thought to have advised three of the Sept. 11 hijackers as well as the Muslim-American US Army major who went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, survived Thursday’s airstrike in Yemen’s Shabwa province.
Friends and relatives of Ansar al Awlaki claimed he was not killed in the attack, but they refused to disclose if he was in attendance at a meeting of al Qaeda leaders when it was hit by what the Yemeni government claimed were Yemeni Air Force fighter-bombers.
Awlaki was thought to have been attending a high-level meeting of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Dec. 24. He was at the meeting to provide the needed religious justification for a planned al Qaeda campaign to conduct attacks against Yemeni and US targets in response to the controversial Dec. 17 airstrikes against al Qaeda in Abyan and Sana’a, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
Among those believed to be at the meeting were Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; his deputy Said al Shihri; and Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al Quso, an al Qaeda operative wanted by the FBI for his role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Wuhayshi and Quso are also thought to have escaped the strike, while the status of Shihri is still unknown.
There are conflicting reports on the location of the strike; some indicate that Awlaki’s home was targeted, while others indicated that Quso’s home was hit.
Mohammed Saleh Awlaki, a local al Qaeda leader and a relative of Quso, was among the more than 30 people killed in Thursday’s airstrike. Mohammed Saleh Awlaki was last seen speaking to a crowd of Yemenis in Abyan province, just days after the Dec. 17 US cruise missile strike that targeted al Qaeda training camps in Abyan and Sana’a. He said al Qaeda was not at war with Yemeni soldiers, but only with the US and those who support her.
Yemen the new launchpad for al Qaeda's attacks against the West
ping for a few updates....check keywords for other updates.
Yes, I heard the roach survived!
They’re awfully hard to kill.
I’ll bookmark the thread. I see why I didn’t get your first ping to me. “Oynx”...lol.
We need to do this one in...BIGTIME!
If at first you don’t succeed,..........
He’s becoming a very powerful guy- he’s smart and gets western culture- bad combination.
Kool!
There has to be a poster by that name....lol.
Look like Ansar want to take OSB’s place as the head of Jihad.
Hopefully our SOC units shall obtain good coordinates for some follow up strikes. Then again this worm probably is hauled up in some safe haven within a dense population center at this point so that he can live another day.
Bump
They've been fascinated with trying to do a multiple plane incident, besides what happened on September 11th.
Thanks for the pings and the links. This guy looks like the epitome of evil. Too bad if we missed him - but I bet we scared the shiite out of him. GOOD!
This “secret” operation in Yemen is not secret any longer - thanks to the NY Times and other “outers”.
Looks like we hit a roach nest and all the little vermin had a hissy fit and scattered, with plans to hit the US if they can manage it.
I have zero confidence that zero can bring some true justice to this vermin - but I have every confidence that somehow our heroes in special ops might be able to pull it off - if the Islamic infiltrators/traitors in the Dept of Defense can be kept out of it....
It all started with Ft. Hood..
It started before that.
Al Aulaki has been described as a protege of the Yemeni cleric al Zindawi, who was allegedly involved in some way with the bombing of the USS Cole and who at one point served on the ruling council of Yemen after its reunification.
ZindaNi started a university in Yemen- perhaps the very school attended by Subchief Flaming Pecker, AbdulMutallab, during his two or more stays in Yemen.
ZindaNi served or serves on the board of a Hamas-linked group called the "Union of Good."
If that doesn't ring a bell, it is a group headed at one time by Dr. Yusuf Abdullah al-Qaradawi, who was barred from the US back in 1999, and who was associated with a group called the Islamic Society of Boston and Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi, who is currently serving time for a deal involving money transfers between Libya and Lebanon, and who was quite the political donor, even serving a stint as Clinton's "goodwill ambassador" to the Middle East, and who spurred Clinton into starting a program to introduce muslim clerics [only the ones approved by his group AMAF-VAC] into the US military chaplains program and into the US prison system.
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