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Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti Drone-zapped During Breakfast
Another red-beard bites the dust. A senior al-Qaida official and potential successor to the group's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed Friday morning in a Predator drone strike, according to reports on jihadi web forums and U.S. officials.Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman Al-Hussainan, aka Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, was killed in Pakistan while eating breakfast, Start your day with a good breakfast, I always say. according to the accounts. The 46-year-old cleric was seen as part of the "very top tier" of al-Qaida's remaining leaders in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, according to one expert on the terror group. "That's a big gap in the leadership," said Kohlmann, who is also a Justice Department consultant. Oh well, I guess this story must be fake, if it's reported by NBC/Justice Dept. "He was the last senior Al-Qaida leader in the Afghanistan-Pakistan area who was, one, from the Arabian Peninsula and, two, who had serious clerical credentials. Now there is no obvious publicly recognizable candidate left to succeed Zawahiri." Posted by: Glenmore 2012-12-08 |
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