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2010-10-11 India-Pakistan

Hamburg-Based Islamists Targeted in US Drone Attack

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Posted by tipper 2010-10-11 05:53|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

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The meeting was supposed to be a kind of commemoration for Sept. 11, 2001, nine years after the terror attacks on the US. Except it wasn't taking place in Hamburg, where several of the 9/11 hijackers had lived for a time, but in the Pakistani town of Mir Ali.

The town, controlled by al-Qaida and Pashtun tribes, is a hotbed of jihadists. Investigators believe that three men from Germany lived directly next to each other in Mir Ali: Ahmad Sidiqi, 36, Shahab Dashti, 27 and Naamen Meziche, 40. They had left Hamburg in March 2009 with the aim of waging jihad.

According to Sidiqi, there was a surprise guest at the meeting, another man from Hamburg who had disappeared from Germany nine years earlier. He was Said Bahaji, 35, one of the last backers of the 9/11 attacks still at large. He had shared an apartment with some of the 9/11 hijackers and, on Sept. 3, 2001, had fled to Karachi. After that he was believed to have found safe haven in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-10-11 08:07|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-10-11 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 The surprise guest was that Hellfire missile.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-10-11 09:05|| 2010-10-11 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 From the headline I thought we had drone-zapped someone in Germany ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-10-11 09:19|| 2010-10-11 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Doing the jobs ~~Americans~~ Euros ~~can't~~ won't do.

For all the talk about NATO support, its been the Americans taking the war to the enemy in their nests rather than sitting back for another series of bombings in London or Madrid followed by the usual bureaucratic hand wringing and 'round up of the usual suspects'. May we say it, the best defense is an offensive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-11 11:09|| 2010-10-11 11:09|| Front Page Top

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