Topic: Drones Kill Al Qaeda's #2
Lpdon's photo
Tue 06/05/12 12:17 AM
Edited by Lpdon on Tue 06/05/12 12:18 AM
Abu Yahya Al-Libi is a rock star in the jihadist world. With his videos and lectures going viral on the Web, he is Al Qaeda's Mr. YouTube.

On Monday, the top Al Qaeda operative reportedly was the intended target of the latest U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, strikes that have been increasingly unpopular among Pakistanis but successful in recent years at taking out terrorist leaders.

The latest strike reportedly killed eight militants in the tribal region of North Waziristan. U.S. and Pakistani government sources told Reuters that Al-Libi was the intended target, but they could not confirm whether he had been hit.

It was the third strike in three days in Pakistan, with a Taliban leader killed in the first strike. And it was said to be the eighth strike in the last two weeks.

The target zone, Mir Ali, is described by sources as a terrorist haven that is a "crossroads" for the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and the latest strike, according to Pakistani officials, is believed to have killed foreign fighters -- code for Arab members of Al Qaeda or Western recruits.

As for Al-Libi, he made his name in July 2005 when he escaped from this high security U.S. prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, along with three other Al Qaeda members. In keeping with his reputation, Al-Libi made a 54-minute video documenting his capture by the Pakistanis, his handover to U.S. authorities and escape from the prison.

Al-Libi is known as a preacher and scholar who more recently took the second-in-command spot when Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri took charge of Al Qaeda after Usama bin Laden's death. As Al Qaeda's de facto general manager, al-Libi oversaw the group's day-to-day operations in Pakistan's tribal areas and managed outreach to Al Qaeda's regional affiliates.

The State Department's Rewards for Justice program had set a $1 million reward for information leading to the Libyan-born fugitive.

Despite the progress in taking out Al Qaeda leadership, the U.S. drone campaign had been in a holding pattern before the NATO summit in Chicago last month in an effort to mend fences. When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was unable to reach a deal with the Pakistanis to re-open supply lines for NATO forces, the drone program resumed.

"This is one of the more prominent names" among the targets of drone strikes in Pakistan, which helps bolster the CIA's push to continue the drone program despite the continued political resistance from Pakistan and collateral damage, added former CIA officer Paul Pillar.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/04/no-2-al-qaeda-leader-reportedly-targeted-in-pakistan-as-drone-strikes-escalate/#ixzz1wtt850HX

The number two leader in all of Al Qaeda in the whole orginizaton has been taken care of along with 15+ militants! :banana: I am a little concerned that another top Al Qaeda member was hiding in Pakistan.

no photo
Tue 06/05/12 08:12 AM
Gotta love those drones.drinker

Sojourning_Soul's photo
Tue 06/05/12 03:34 PM
Edited by Sojourning_Soul on Tue 06/05/12 03:46 PM
Guess the 22 women and 14 children listed as "collateral damage" weren't as important huh?

They NEVER are!

Perhaps someone with photobucket would bring the truth in pictures? I don't use it!

Bestinshow's photo
Tue 06/05/12 03:52 PM
I read somewere that the cost of two days fighting in Afghanistan would solve the city of Detroits bankruptcy.

Sojourning_Soul's photo
Tue 06/05/12 04:06 PM
Edited by Sojourning_Soul on Tue 06/05/12 04:10 PM

I read somewere that the cost of two days fighting in Afghanistan would solve the city of Detroits bankruptcy.


Might shed some light....

http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com/2010/08/corporate-war-machine-cost-of-munitions.html

Or this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009371/Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan-wars-US-cost-3-7trillion-258k-lives.html

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Tue 06/05/12 04:37 PM
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Lpdon's photo
Tue 06/05/12 05:03 PM

Guess the 22 women and 14 children listed as "collateral damage" weren't as important huh?

They NEVER are!

Perhaps someone with photobucket would bring the truth in pictures? I don't use it!


22? 15 total people were killed in this attack and they so far have been able to determine 10 were militants and that number is still growing and if someone who is not a terrorist is in a house with a terrorist it's their bad because they support their cause.

Bestinshow's photo
Tue 06/05/12 05:03 PM


I read somewere that the cost of two days fighting in Afghanistan would solve the city of Detroits bankruptcy.


Might shed some light....

http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com/2010/08/corporate-war-machine-cost-of-munitions.html

Or this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009371/Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan-wars-US-cost-3-7trillion-258k-lives.html
TY verry nformative

Sojourning_Soul's photo
Tue 06/05/12 05:26 PM


Guess the 22 women and 14 children listed as "collateral damage" weren't as important huh?

They NEVER are!

Perhaps someone with photobucket would bring the truth in pictures? I don't use it!


22? 15 total people were killed in this attack and they so far have been able to determine 10 were militants and that number is still growing and if someone who is not a terrorist is in a house with a terrorist it's their bad because they support their cause.


Yeah, most warmongers would use that excuse to justify killing women and children.... and none of them have ever had to look down a barrel and pull a trigger either!

They just sit back with their beer and pizza and turn on Faux!

Couch warriors!

willing2's photo
Tue 06/05/12 07:17 PM



Guess the 22 women and 14 children listed as "collateral damage" weren't as important huh?

They NEVER are!

Perhaps someone with photobucket would bring the truth in pictures? I don't use it!


22? 15 total people were killed in this attack and they so far have been able to determine 10 were militants and that number is still growing and if someone who is not a terrorist is in a house with a terrorist it's their bad because they support their cause.


Yeah, most warmongers would use that excuse to justify killing women and children.... and none of them have ever had to look down a barrel and pull a trigger either!

They just sit back with their beer and pizza and turn on Faux!

Couch warriors!

The Gubament never invents terrorists.
They always tell the truth and Mac Daddy has never lied.
BTW, check's in the mail and I won't________________________!:wink: laugh

Lpdon's photo
Tue 06/05/12 09:01 PM
whoa