longwarjournal.org - 10/31/2008
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South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir. Click to view.
US unmanned Predator aircraft struck inside Pakistan's tribal areas for the second time today. After targeting a mid-level al Qaeda operative in North Waziristan, US Predators attacked a compound in Wana, South ...
abcnews.go.com - 10/30/2008
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Multiple senior government officials tell ABC News the
intelligence community is anticipating a message from Osama bin...
Laden before or just after the presidential election. As we race toward Election Day , sources say a number of intelligence ...
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Exclusive: U.S. Expects Bin Laden Message Near Election
breitbart.com - 11/1/2008
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An Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative -- described by the
United States as the terror network's propaganda chief --...
was killed in a missile strike in Pakistan, security officials said on Saturday. Abu Jihad al-Masri was among several rebels killed when two ...
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Al-Qaeda propaganda chief killed in Pakistan strike: ...
longwarjournal.org - 10/31/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
The US has struck again inside Pakistan's lawless
tribal areas. The latest airstrike targeted a key al...
Qaeda facilitator who served as a bridge between the Taliban and al Qaeda. The US is also stating that al Qaeda operative Khalid Habib was killed ...
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US strikes kills al Qaeda operatives in North & South ...
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Bill Roggio: US Predators strike again in Waziristan
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Friday, 31 October 2008 Six "foreigners" and one Taliban operative are killed in today's second airstrike that reportedly targeted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan chief Tahir Yuldashev and Mullah Nazir in South Waziristan. Nazir is said to have been wounded in the strike. read ...
US Predators strike again in Waziristan (Pakistan)
Flopping Aces —
... group and Mullah Nazir were the target of the attack. A US intelligence source said that Nazir was wounded in the strike, “possibly seriously.”
Nazir is a rival to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. He ejected Uzbeks from the al Qaeda-allied Islamic Jihad Union from the Wana region in 2007. This action caused the media to describe Nazir as “pro-government Taliban.” But Nazir is allied with the Uzbeks of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
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(suggestion/request for FA readers, could someone PLEASE notify the NYT, LAT, NBC, ...
Another Major Al Qaeda Figure Eliminated In Airstrikes
A Blog For All —
... recent months, but the number of high value targets has increased as well. That suggests that the level of intel being gathered by the US and likely passed on by the Pakistanis has increased as well. The US must be getting better intel on the whereabouts of major al Qaeda figures and their movements as the US continues to take out top and middle level al Qaeda who would otherwise be busy plotting new attacks against the West and the US. Bill Roggio notes that an additional airstrike hit major Taliban thugs in Waziristan . Tahir Yuldalshev, the commander of a Uzbek terror ...
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