Senior Al-Qaida leader al Masri reported killed in Missile strike: Is the man finally dead?
comment by Jerry Gordon
The new Pakistani PM, Yousuf Raza Galani shows up on the White House lawn Monday for a photo op and the wire services erupt with news about a US missile strike that took out a key al Qaeda leader with a $5 million price on his head, Abu Khabab Al-Masri. Coincidental? Not a chance. Al-Masri, death was confirmed by Taliban terrorists and Al-Masri’s wife who was supposed to have been eliminated in a 2006 missile attack. This AP report indicated that there were four Egyptians and two Pakistanis killed in the attack. Galani opined that his government would investigate whether this was a US violation of Pakistani sovereignty, as the attack occurred in South Waziristan. His comment: “Basically, Americans are a little impatient.”‘ Bush and Galani went through the ‘kabuki’ dance declaring solidarity in fighting the ‘no-name war’. These were indications that all was not not sweetness and light during the photo op in the White House Rose Garden with President Bush and Pakistani PM Galani. Odds are that it could have been a CIA Predator strike, that might provide some shield of deniability. Meanwhile, Pakistani counter terrorism and intelligence forces have to deal with the Taliban. Note this from the AP report:
On Tuesday, suspected Islamic militants abducted about 30 police and paramilitary troops in northwestern Pakistan, a day after three intelligence agents were killed there in an ambush. A militant spokesman, Bakht Ali Khan, claimed responsibility and accused the government of not sticking to a peace accord that was reached in May.
Sic gloria transit the war against Islamic terrorism in South Asia.
by Matthew Pennington, AP, July 29, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan investigated reports Tuesday that a senior al-Qaida figure was among six people killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike amid anger that the attack had violated the Islamic nation’s sovereignty.
Pakistan’s army said it had not confirmed that Monday’s strike killed al-Qaida operative Abu Khabab al-Masri, described by Washington as an expert who trained terrorists in the use of poisons and explosives.
But two Pakistani intelligence officials said they believed al-Masri had died and an American official in Washington expressed cautious optimism. The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
“There is a real sense that this guy is gone,” the American official said. But he cautioned that there was no material evidence yet to confirm al-Masri’s death, such as a photograph of the dead man at the bomb site.
The pre-dawn strike on a border village in the South Waziristan tribal region came hours before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani met with President Bush at the White House.
There is increasing pressure from the West on the four-month-old Pakistan government to act against Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds in its frontier region with Afghanistan amid concern that peace deals have given militants more freedom to operate. (Continue Reading this Article)
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