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Al-Qaida’s No. 2 Leader Is Dead

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Posted on Aug 28, 2011
AP / National Counterterrorism Center

Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, al-Qaida’s second in command and trusted confidant of Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Waziristan, Pakistan’s tribal region, a U.S. government official announced Saturday. The State Department had placed a $1 million reward on his head.

Saturday’s announcement, in disclosing that Rahman, a Libyan, had been killed on Aug. 22, contained few details. However, The New York Times reported Saturday that the al-Qaida leader had died in a strike from a CIA aerial drone. —ARK

New York Daily News:

Al Qaeda’s No. 2 boss, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, dealing another devastating blow to the terrorist network, a U.S. official said Saturday.

... His death came on the same day an unmanned CIA drone bombed the Waziristan area.

The U.S. State Department had offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of al Rahman.

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By PatrickHenry, August 29, 2011 at 2:45 pm Link to this comment

Never fear, an endless supply of #2’s are in reserve and with every drone strike on their soil we increase the numbers ten-fold.

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By SarcastiCanuck, August 29, 2011 at 10:53 am Link to this comment
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Apparently the CIA also blew up an Al Queda donkey suspected of masterminding numerous operations in the tribal regions of Afghanistan.They recognised him even though he was disguised with a sombrero and had four small children on his back.When questioned by the media about the chidren,CIA spokesperson C.J.Malarky stated that the children were actually Al Queda terrorist suicide dwarves.These new battle hardened dwarves are the latest in the terrorist aresenal and are disguising themselves as children to allude detection.C.J.stated,“Expect to see us blowing up more of these evil dwarves in the future.We will prevail.”

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By ardee, August 29, 2011 at 2:32 am Link to this comment

This guy was supposedly killed before, now he is dead again….

The point is that , until and unless we stop our empire building and our forceful usurpation of the natural resources that lie behind our invasions, there will always be another such to take the place of those we kill, however many times we kill him.

Ironic that, had we spent a fraction of what the wars cost on building these nations , safeguarding their water, assisted with their health care, their education. they would stop becoming radicalized by our own actions.

Of course that is asking our government to do for them what it refuses to do for us.

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By lasmog, August 28, 2011 at 6:44 pm Link to this comment

Time to declare victory and leave I hope.

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By PatP, August 28, 2011 at 6:27 pm Link to this comment

So #3 advances in this the quarterfinals to become the new #2. Can’t tell the targets without a program. Follow the up and coming before they’ve arrived.

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By Daye, August 28, 2011 at 6:03 pm Link to this comment

Had the criminal sonsofbitches that own & with
the assistance of their equally psychopathic
‘legislators,’ including Janus faced Barakuda
Obamanable, given me the trillions of dollars, I
could sure as hell have transferred more of the
American people’s wealth to their coffers, & not
to the other crooks, scum & piteous slobs here &
there in the U.S. & about the world that got so
much of it.

Once upon a time, decades ago, when Rep.
James Utt - aka Utt the Nut, as he was coyly
called by his fellow congresspersons - called for
passage of The Freedom Amendment to the
Constitution, which would have eliminated
taxes, praise the Lord!, I wrote to jerk Rep.
James
offering to buy & operate with my own money
the DoD & the whole of American military
paraphernalia & personnel. Alas, Congress & the
states did not get The Nut’s bill passed, & my
opportunity, & America’s opportunity to be
saved by me, was lost.

Hell ... with my trillions, not yours, I could have
killed more than a million or so innocents, more
than bin Laden, al-Rahman & Top Ramen, brain
damaged more GIs, given more fun money to
Prezes George W. Bush & BO, & be your choice
for the next Emperor of Banksters.

Damn it. Vote for me, Daye. I give the most
twisted, reptilian, diseased mindfucks in my
followers’ faces. Better than the rest? You
betcha. After nightfall in the Place Pigalle, all the
goobers unzip for me. In Alaska, they say Sarah
pales when I sashay into any stadium. Why,
Bernie Madoff gave me a billion for the favor of
an hour at the Ritz, & although I visited the
White House that afternoon, & thus missed the
Ritz, Bernie said, “oh that was the best bil i ever
spent for dreams.”

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By expat, August 28, 2011 at 5:47 pm Link to this comment
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yeah right,

don’t you know,

we’re winning in Afghanistan

that’s why we’re staying till 2024

or forever…

Note to the spooks who come up with this garbage…


Nobody believes a word of any of this.

nobody.

Do you guys understand the word: “ridiculous”?

Go look in the mirror, you’ll see a picture of stupid

and liar

and war criminal

and criminal against humanity

of a murderer and a whore for hire.

Tell me again how proud you are to be

an ameriKan.

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By Bisbonian, August 28, 2011 at 5:13 pm Link to this comment
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“Al Qaida’s Number Two Leader is Dead!”

Again?

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By blogdog, August 28, 2011 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment

prevailing wisdom: expect the CIA/MI6/Mossad nexus to play every side of every
side and let no asset go unused - indeed: while ‘hunting’ Al Queda in Waziristan
and they commission them to lead the charge in Libya… e.g.

Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reign of Terror in Tripoli is the Monster
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden,
former US POW, and Infamous Killer of US Soldiers in Afghanistan

details: http://tarpley.net/

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By hahaha, August 28, 2011 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment
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Tell me another one.  I guess that makes it alright to have killed those 105 women and children.

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