http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/israeli-airstrike-kills-group-commander-in-gaza-1.992263
Israel kills Palestinian militant commander
Zuhair al-Qaissi was the top commander of the armed wing ofthe Popular Resistance Committee, a large militant group aligned with Hamas. Photograph: Hatem Moussa/AP
An Israeli air strike has killed a top Palestinian militant commander and a second militant in Gaza in the highest-profile attack in the terrority in months.
The Israeli military confirmed Friday's strike, saying the killed commander, Zuhair al-Qaissi, was plotting an attack on Israel similar to one his group carried out in August that killed eight people. In a statement, the Israelimilitary warned Gaza's Hamas rulers against any retaliation.
Palestinian witnessessaid Israeli drones were seen hovering above moments before a vehicle exploded into flames just outside of Gaza City.
Qaissi was the top commander of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committee, a large militant group aligned with Hamas. The group's spokesman confirmed his death as well as identifyinganother casualty, Mahmoud Hanini, who had previously been deported to Gaza after being released from an Israeli prison. Another peron was seriously wounded inthe attack. His identity remains unclear.
"The coward Zionists have committed an ugly crime and they know the price that they are going to pay," said the spokesman, who goes by the pseudonym Abu Mujahid.
Israel often targets Gaza militants it says are preparing attacks, but relations have been relatively calm in recent months, with Israel mostly targeting smuggling tunnels from Egypt and refraining from targeting individuals.Qaissi, 55, is also known as Abu Ibrahim.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/09/israel-kills-palestinian-militant-commander?newsfeed=true
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Terrorism Research - What is Terrorism ?
http://www.terrorism-research.com/

It is of the utmost importance that those who are actively
plotting terrorist attacks against civilians be eliminated as
threats - by force if necessary - before they bring about
catastrophic killings such as those on 911, bus and cafe bombings
and missile attacks aimed solely at innocent men, women and
children in their homes!

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Terror - US

Holder gives legal defense for al-Awlaki killing

Published March 05, 2012

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among the gravest that government leaders can face," but justified lethal action as legal and sometimes necessary in the war on terror.

Holder's comments broke the administration's silence on the legal justifications for its decision to kill American-born al-Qaida operative Anwar al-Awlaki five months ago in Yemen. In a speech at Northwestern University law school in Chicago, he described al-Awlaki as concocting plans to kill Americans but he never explicitly acknowledged the administration responded by targeting the cleric for death.

Instead the attorney general outlined a three-part test for determining when a targeted killing against a U.S. citizen is legal. He said the government must determine after careful review that the citizen poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the U.S., capture is not feasible and the killing would be consistent with laws of war.

The Obama administration has refused to release the Justice Department legal opinion on al-Awlaki's killing under the Freedom of Information Act and is in court opposing efforts to have it made public.

Responding to criticism from civil libertarians, Holder flatly rejected the suggestion that the Constitution's due process protections require the president to get permission from a federal court before taking lethal action.

"The unfortunate reality is that our nation will likely continue to face terrorist threats that at times originate with our own citizens," Holder told a packed Thorne Auditorium, where all 700 seats were filled with law students, who were taking notes on their laptops, were joined by Chicago-based federal prosecutors and other observers.

"When such individuals take up arms against this country and join al-Qaida in plotting attacks designed to kill their fellow Americans there may be only one realistic and appropriate response," the attorney general continued. "We must take steps to stop them in full accordance with the Constitution. In this hour of danger, we simply cannot afford to wait until deadly plans are carried out — and we will not."

Al-Awlaki's killing in a joint CIA-U.S. military drone strike on a convoy in Yemen sparked a public debate over whether the president should have the authority to kill an American without a conviction and despite an executive order banning assassinations — which Holder called a "loaded term" that doesn't apply in this case. Until now the Obama administration has said very little about it publicly as administration officials have debated how much to reveal in response to the criticism.

The day that al-Awlaki was killed, President Barack Obama said his death was "a major blow to al-Qaida's most active operational affiliate" and "another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al-Qaida." But he did not acknowledge publicly that the United States was responsible for the drone attack, which was confirmed by counterterrorism officials.

Al-Awlaki was a cleric who was born in New Mexico and once preached at an Islamic center in Falls Church, Va. His sermons in English are posted all over the Internet and his name has been associated with several attempted terrorist attacks. The Justice Department has said that a Nigerian man who tried to blow up an international flight on Christmas 2009 told FBI agents that his mission was approved after a three-day visit with al-Awlaki.

Obama administration officials told The Associated Press that Obama approved al-Awlaki's killing in April 2010, when he became the first American placed on the CIA "kill or capture" list.

"Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen — even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land — is among the gravest that government leaders can face," Holder said. "The American people can be — and deserve to be — assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/05/ap-source-holder-will-address-targeted-killings/

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Tonight, I can report to the American people and the world that
the United States has conducted an operation that has killed
Osama Bin Laden.

http://youtu.be/Ellnd3M8-ow

Dam Obama isn't playing around "Kill'em all and let Allah sort'em out"He's like what 2-0 on killing al-qaeda leaders.

An Israeli attack on Iran to halt its nuclear program is not in the immediateoffing, but will also not – if necessary – be pushed off for years, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu intimated in interviews he gave on Thursday to the country’s three television networks.
“I don’t have a stop watch in hand,” Netanyahu said in a segment of the interview to Channel 2 aired on Thursday evening. “This is not a matter of days or weeks. It is also not amatter of years. The result has to be that the threat of a nuclear weapon in Iran’s hands is removed.”

It's just like getting those guys from Jemaah Islamiyah last month
in the Phillipines!

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Philippines: Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist, 2 other militants killed in air strike

Published February 02, 2012

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed air strike that would mark one of the region's biggest anti-terror successes in recent years.

Philippine troops did not immediately recover bodies from the dawn strike targeting a militant stronghold on a southern Philippine island, but military spokesman Col. Marcelo Burgos said the dead included Malaysian Zulkifi bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional, al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network.

Also killed in the strike were the leader of the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militants, Umbra Jumdail, and a Singaporean leader in Jemaah Islamiyah, Abdullah Ali, who used the guerrilla name Muawiyah, Burgos said.

Forensic investigators could not immediately approach the heavily-forested mountain camp hit in the strike because the area remains under the control of another rebel group, Moro National Liberation Front, which signed a peace pact with the government in 1996, said regional military commander Maj. Gen. Noel Coballes.

He said that no one was captured following Thursday's airstrike and that some militants escaped and then returned to retrieve the bodies of those who died. It is unclear if they also recovered the bodies of the three leaders, he said.

About 30 militants were in the camp near Parang town on Jolo Island, the stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf and their allies from the mostly Indonesian-based Jemaah Islamiyah, when it was bombarded by two OV10 aircraft at 3 a.m., Coballes said.

"Our report is there were at least 15 killed, including their three leadership," he said. "This is a deliberate, fully planned attack coming from our forces."

The U.S. had offered a $5 million reward for the capture of Marwan, a U.S.-trained engineer accused of involvement in a number of deadly bombings in the Philippines and in the training of new militants.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/02/3-leaders-al-qaeda-linked-terror-group-killed-in-philippines/#ixzz1oefq4JOF