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Veteran Qaeda leader killed
 [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US military said Wednesday that it had killed eleven al-Qaeda operatives, including a veteran leader and suicide kaboom pioneer, in a bombing raid in Syria. The Pentagon said Abu Hani al-Masri, the Qaeda veteran, was one of those killed in the precision Al-Masri was an early official in al-Qaeda, overseeing the group’s training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s as he worked with Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... and current leader Ayman al-  Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... . There "he recruited, indoctrinated, trained and equipped thousands of turbans who subsequently spread throughout the region and the world," the Pentagon said in a statement. They said he also helped found Egyptian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... "he first Sunni group to use jacket wallahs in their terror attacks." "These strikes disrupt al-Qaeda’s ability to plot and direct external attacks targeting the US and our interests worldwide," said Pentagon front man Jeff Davis. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-10 |
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