Aantares    Aantares BB  Hop To Forum Categories  Your News, Money, Sports  Hop To Forums  News    Wow! Obama nailed underwear bombmaker in same strike. Ninja!
Go To
Post
Search BB
Notify Me
TOS/Tools/Smilies
Reply
  
Wow! Obama nailed underwear bombmaker in same strike. Ninja!
 Login/Register 
Dr Chango
AAA+
Picture of Dr Chango
Posted
Underwear-bomb maker believed dead in Yemen strike

A Saudi militant believed killed in the U.S. drone strike in Yemen constructed the bombs for the al-Qaida branch's most notorious attempted attacks — including the underwear-borne explosives intended to a down a U.S. aircraft, and a bomb carried by his own brother intended to assassinate a Saudi prince.

The death of Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri would make the Friday drone strikes on a convoy in the central deserts of Yemen one of the most effective single blows in the U.S. campaign to take out al-Qaida's top figures.

The strike also killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric who had been key to recruiting for the militant group, and a Pakistani-American, Samir Khan, who was a top English-language propagandist.
But Christopher Boucek, a scholar who studies Yemen and al-Qaida, said al-Asiri's death would "overshadow" that of the two Americans due to his operational importance to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based group that is considered the most active branch of the terror network.

Anybody still doubting the wisdom of this strike?


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brain surgery for right-wing wackos. No waiting...the Doctor is in!
 
Posts: 67658 | Location: Surf City, California | Mbr Since: 10-07-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Jean
Constant...
Posted Hide Post
Hooray for Obama.
Osama Bin Laden, now two more bigwigs in Al Quaeda gone. Well done.

Way to lead and minimize casualties Commander-in-Chief!
 
Posts: 959 | Location: Northeast USA | Mbr Since: 05-02-2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Harpy Bane
Aavid
Picture of Harpy Bane
Posted Hide Post
Far more successful than Dubya!


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.”
---Willard
 
Posts: 26117 | Location: Minnesanapolis, Minnesnowta | Mbr Since: 11-14-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Dr Chango
AAA+
Picture of Dr Chango
Posted Hide Post
That's what's frosting the arses of our resident right-wing Taliban.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brain surgery for right-wing wackos. No waiting...the Doctor is in!
 
Posts: 67658 | Location: Surf City, California | Mbr Since: 10-07-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Florida Righty
AAA+
Picture of Florida Righty
Posted Hide Post
Official: Al Qaeda bomb maker wasn't killed



quote:
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A top Yemeni official says al Qaeda's chief bomb maker in Yemen was not killed in the U.S. drone strike on a convoy two days ago.


U.S. intelligence officials had said that bomb maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri may have been killed.


But on Sunday a Yemeni official said Al-Asiri was not among those who died in the drone attack that killed U.S.-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.


Al-Asiri has been linked to the bomb that authorities allege a Nigerian man tried to detonate aboard a Detroit-bound plane in 2009. The Yemeni official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...4/main20114510.shtml


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Arianna Huffington: Obama’s bin Laden ad “despicable"

Standing in the Way of Big Goverment is Not Standing in the Way of Progress

Barack Obama Is Loud And Makes You Feel Good But It's Only Hot Air! Much Like A Fart!

 
Posts: 69381 | Location: Sunny Florida | Mbr Since: 10-06-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Gus Rodgers
Steadfast...
Picture of Gus Rodgers
Posted Hide Post
So you'll believe an anonymous Yemeni if it allows you to avoid giving our President any credit?


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Say Gay Bush.

Say "Obama's Predecessor," if you absolutely have to.
 
Posts: 16213 | Location: Dacron, Ohio | Mbr Since: 05-19-2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Harpy Bane
Aavid
Picture of Harpy Bane
Posted Hide Post
Well, truth be told, I've heard that from other sources as well. But, if he's still alive, you can bet he'll be looking over his shoulder from now until doomsday...


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.”
---Willard
 
Posts: 26117 | Location: Minnesanapolis, Minnesnowta | Mbr Since: 11-14-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Zorro
Aardent
Posted Hide Post
The domestic critique of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism protocols has been rendered mere partisanship by the Obama embrace or expansion of nearly every element that was once demonized between 2002-8.
quote:

Obama’s unintended legacy is to legitimize Guantanamo, Iraq, renditions, tribunals, preventative detention, the Patriot Act, and so on.

A Barack Obama who demagogued waterboarding won’t again — unless waterboarding three self-confessed mass-murdering terrorists is a “war crime” while blowing up over 2,000 suspected terrorists (and any in their vicinity, including U.S. citizens) with judge/jury/executioner missiles is not.

(I think the current administration’s idea is simply that the more we vaporize in Waziristan, the less hassle we have with live suspects at Gitmo — again, on the rationale that a current senator, posing like Obama in 2007, can always have a field day with a captive live person in U.S. custody, but not so much with a dead one on foreign soil.)

http://pajamasmedia.com/victor...nce/?singlepage=true
 
Posts: 34195 | Location: The Present | Mbr Since: 11-22-2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Dr Chango
AAA+
Picture of Dr Chango
Posted Hide Post
Wrong again.

The critique of the Bush/Cheney policies was that they failed. They let Al Qaeda off the mat, they squandered our resources and attention in the wrong place, they did illegal things, and they made more enemies than they eliminated.

But as in everything else, Obama is cleaning up their mess.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brain surgery for right-wing wackos. No waiting...the Doctor is in!
 
Posts: 67658 | Location: Surf City, California | Mbr Since: 10-07-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Florida Righty
AAA+
Picture of Florida Righty
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Gus Rodgers:
So you'll believe an anonymous Yemeni if it allows you to avoid giving our President any credit?



Maybe they should have waited for confirmation.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Arianna Huffington: Obama’s bin Laden ad “despicable"

Standing in the Way of Big Goverment is Not Standing in the Way of Progress

Barack Obama Is Loud And Makes You Feel Good But It's Only Hot Air! Much Like A Fart!

 
Posts: 69381 | Location: Sunny Florida | Mbr Since: 10-06-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Harpy Bane
Aavid
Picture of Harpy Bane
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Florida Righty:
Official: Al Qaeda bomb maker wasn't killed



quote:
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A top Yemeni official says al Qaeda's chief bomb maker in Yemen was not killed in the U.S. drone strike on a convoy two days ago.


U.S. intelligence officials had said that bomb maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri may have been killed.


But on Sunday a Yemeni official said Al-Asiri was not among those who died in the drone attack that killed U.S.-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.


Al-Asiri has been linked to the bomb that authorities allege a Nigerian man tried to detonate aboard a Detroit-bound plane in 2009. The Yemeni official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...4/main20114510.shtml


Sounds like F.Righty's cheering that particular point...figures...


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.”
---Willard
 
Posts: 26117 | Location: Minnesanapolis, Minnesnowta | Mbr Since: 11-14-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Dr Chango
AAA+
Picture of Dr Chango
Posted Hide Post
Al Asiri is probably hiding in F.Righty's double-wide.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brain surgery for right-wing wackos. No waiting...the Doctor is in!
 
Posts: 67658 | Location: Surf City, California | Mbr Since: 10-07-2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

    Aantares    Aantares BB  Hop To Forum Categories  Your News, Money, Sports  Hop To Forums  News    Wow! Obama nailed underwear bombmaker in same strike. Ninja!

© 2003-2012 Aantares Online LLC. All Rights Reserved.