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Photo: According to officials the drone attack killed Fahid Mohammed Ali Msalam and Msalam's right hand man Sheikh Ahmed Salem Swedan in Pakistan
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Al-Qaeda's Palestinian Inroads When al-Qaeda invited journalists and
the people at large to direct questions by internet...
to al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the most frequent questions was: Why does al-Qaeda not launch ...
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Brings FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List Down to
21 By JASON RYAN, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and MEGAN CHUCHMACH...
January 8, 2009 Two top al Qaeda officials are believed dead following a New Year's Day drone attack in northern Pakistan, ABC News has confirmed. ...
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Top al Qaeda Targets Reportedly Dead After U.S. Air Strike
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Two Top Al Qaeda Figures Killed By Vicious New Year's Eve Hangovers And Hellfire Missiles But Mostly Hellfire Missiles
Ace of Spades HQ —
Two Top Al Qaeda Figures Killed By Vicious New Years Eve Hangovers And Hellfire Missiles But Mostly Hellfire Missiles Happy New Year bitches. Two top al Qaeda officials are believed dead following a New Year's Day drone attack in northern Pakistan, ABC News has confirmed. U.S. officials said Fahid Mohammed Ali Msalam and Sheikh Ahmed Salem Swedan, both on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list, were killed in the CIA strike. Msalam, who also went by the alias Usama al-Kini, and Swedan were both from Kenya and were indicted in the Aug. 7, 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in ...
The Consequences of a Protracted Acquisition Cycle
Neptunus Lex —
A CIA Predator zapped Usama al-Kini and Sheik Ahmed Salim Sweden over the evening. The Kenyan al Qaeda pair were hunkering down in Western Pakistan, having successfully planned and executed the September 2008 attack on the Marriott in Islamabad as well as training and equipping terror operatives across Afghanistan and East Africa. According to news reports the two were responsible for hundreds of civilian casualties. Which is what terrorists, you know: Do.
The BBC says that both men had been trying to develop ” a weapon that could shoot down the high-flying drone aircraft”.
Not anymore. ...
Obama Begins Air-Raiding Villages & Killing Innocent Civilians
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"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." Barack Obama On US troops in Afghanistan August 14, 2007 Today's air-raid caused tremendous pressure: Pakistani tribesmen chant slogans against military operations and drone attacks in the tribal areas during a demonstration near the president's house and the parliament building in Islamabad January 23, 2009. Three civilians were killed and a ...
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