What a fitting way to die
US strike killed Al Qaeda bomb maker
Reuters @ Yahoo Original Article
The bad news is that Al-Zawahiri may have not been killed, but the Al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, Midhat Mursi, was one of the men killed in the missile attack last week by a Predator UAV. This guy was worth $5 million. Not Number Two, but definitely a significant strike. I am sure this would put Al-Zawahiri on the defensive for awhile. We may also hope he gets really upset and tries to find the mole in his network and kills a couple of "innocent" fellow terrorists.
What a fitting way for a bomb maker to die.
UPDATE: APF @ Yahoo now stating that not only was Midhat Mursi killed in airstrike, but Abu Obaidah al-Masri, Al-Qaeda's chief of operations for the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, where US and Afghan forces are battling a fierce insurgency. In addition, Al-Zawahiri's son-in-law, Abdur Rehman al-Maghribi, was killed. He apparently was the head of Al-Qaeda's media operations.
Talk about a significant strike. We killed the bomb maker/chemical expert believed to be head of Al-Qaeda's drive to use WMDs and chief weapons trainer. We killed the chief of operations in the province. And finally we killed the chief of propaganda for Al-Qaeda. That a significant loss of expertise to Al-Qaeda and as mentioned before may have additional effects of keeping the ones left alive down their rat hole for longer.
UPDATE 2: Threatswatch states that Khaled al-Harbi, al-Qaeda’s operational commander in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was killed. Al-Harbi splits duty in Afghanistan with Abd al Hadi Al Iraqi, and both are considered “two of [al-Qaeda’s] most able commanders”.
ABC News stated, "Authorities tell ABC News that the terror summit was called to funnel new money into attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan… “Pakistani intelligence says this was a very important planning session involving the very top levels of al Qaeda as they get ready for a new spring offensive,” explained Alexis Debat, a former official in the French Defense Ministry and now an ABC News consultant."
If true, this missile strike was an extremely significant blow to Al-Qaeda's efforts not only in Afghanistan but the world at large.
Reuters @ Yahoo Original Article
The bad news is that Al-Zawahiri may have not been killed, but the Al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, Midhat Mursi, was one of the men killed in the missile attack last week by a Predator UAV. This guy was worth $5 million. Not Number Two, but definitely a significant strike. I am sure this would put Al-Zawahiri on the defensive for awhile. We may also hope he gets really upset and tries to find the mole in his network and kills a couple of "innocent" fellow terrorists.
What a fitting way for a bomb maker to die.
UPDATE: APF @ Yahoo now stating that not only was Midhat Mursi killed in airstrike, but Abu Obaidah al-Masri, Al-Qaeda's chief of operations for the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, where US and Afghan forces are battling a fierce insurgency. In addition, Al-Zawahiri's son-in-law, Abdur Rehman al-Maghribi, was killed. He apparently was the head of Al-Qaeda's media operations.
Talk about a significant strike. We killed the bomb maker/chemical expert believed to be head of Al-Qaeda's drive to use WMDs and chief weapons trainer. We killed the chief of operations in the province. And finally we killed the chief of propaganda for Al-Qaeda. That a significant loss of expertise to Al-Qaeda and as mentioned before may have additional effects of keeping the ones left alive down their rat hole for longer.
UPDATE 2: Threatswatch states that Khaled al-Harbi, al-Qaeda’s operational commander in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was killed. Al-Harbi splits duty in Afghanistan with Abd al Hadi Al Iraqi, and both are considered “two of [al-Qaeda’s] most able commanders”.
ABC News stated, "Authorities tell ABC News that the terror summit was called to funnel new money into attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan… “Pakistani intelligence says this was a very important planning session involving the very top levels of al Qaeda as they get ready for a new spring offensive,” explained Alexis Debat, a former official in the French Defense Ministry and now an ABC News consultant."
If true, this missile strike was an extremely significant blow to Al-Qaeda's efforts not only in Afghanistan but the world at large.
posted by Lieutenant Colonel Caveman at Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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