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2009-07-23 India-Pakistan

Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In US Drone Attack

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Posted by tu3031 2009-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 We need to hit the funeral. Never Forgive, Never Forget.

Posted by Destro_in_Panama 2009-07-23 00:11|| 2009-07-23 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, Destro, maybe we did. There was a funeral with a bunch of biggies hit a while back.

Posted by Plastic Snoopy 2009-07-23 00:40|| 2009-07-23 00:40|| Front Page Top

#3 He was active in al-Qaida, but was not a major player,

Yet, for years Saad was called Al Qaeda's (now ex-) heir apparent. Too bad, so sad, but I hear Kim Jong Nam is out of work and available for an heir apparent position.

Almost forgot. ULULULULULULU!!!! Bacon flavored candies for everyone!

Posted by ed 2009-07-23 01:25|| 2009-07-23 01:25|| Front Page Top

#4 He's in Al Qaeda and sought death of innocents, live by the bomb, die by the bomb. Not all his children took their father's path, so it's not the peaceful one we want. I'd expect revenge if dad is still alive.

Posted by Gerthudion Flaith1343 2009-07-23 02:22|| 2009-07-23 02:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Saad, so Saad, to be struck dead in the flower of youth. Please, may I have some more?

Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-23 07:54|| 2009-07-23 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll bet the leftist posters at the DUmp (Democratic Underground maggot pinkhoes) are on suicide watch. Along with Obama, I mean Osama, and the rest of the Amerika haters.

Posted by Chetle Untervehr6476 2009-07-23 09:28|| 2009-07-23 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 "It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year'

Recently enough for the new admin to take credit, I wonder? :)

Anyway, congrats to the USAF (or CIA?) drone boys for their excellent hunting.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-07-23 09:32|| 2009-07-23 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 "Not a big player" in other words we killed your son A$$ hole for our sons and daughters killed fighting you sorry A$$. He was not a big player or really worth a $hit but since he was your son, we zapped him, courtesy the red white and blue!

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-07-23 10:51|| 2009-07-23 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Bacon flavored candies for everyone!

Will these do?

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-07-23 11:16|| 2009-07-23 11:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Doesn't sound like such small potatoes to me...

2006-11-15
Iran has freed a son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday. Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border. It linked the reported move to the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hizbullah.

"From the Lebanese border, he has the task of building Islamist terror cells and preparing them to fight together with Hizbullah," Die Welt said, quoting intelligence information. "Apparently Tehran is counting on recruiting Lebanese refugees in Syria for the fight against Israel, using bin Laden's help," it added in a preview of a report to appear in its Thursday edition.

Unless, of course, sonny wasn't up to the job...

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-23 11:20|| 2009-07-23 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Ha ha! {pointing and laughing}

How d'ya like them apples, Binny? Which one would you like zapped next?

Posted by gorb 2009-07-23 11:54|| 2009-07-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Apart from the success of the mission itself, the dismissive tone of the spin is perfect. He was just an incidental casualty, wrong place, wrong time.

Posted by JAB 2009-07-23 16:31|| 2009-07-23 16:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, it is an NPR story...

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-23 16:34|| 2009-07-23 16:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Magwa will only be whole when the Grey Hair and all his seed are dead.

Posted by regular joe 2009-07-23 16:35|| 2009-07-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

#15 He played a prominent role in co-ordinating between al-Qaeda and Iran, where he is believed to have been arrested in 2003 after he sought sanctuary there after fleeing from Pakistan in 2001.

He allegedly helped facilitate communication between al-Qaeda's number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, following an al-Qaeda attack on the US embassy in Yemen in 2008.

Nothing new, but for the record.

Posted by ed 2009-07-23 20:36|| 2009-07-23 20:36|| Front Page Top

#16 By "arrest", the Iranians mean luxury villa compounds on the Caspian Sea.

Posted by ed 2009-07-23 20:37|| 2009-07-23 20:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Within an narrow scope, "Reported/allegedly killed" is not the same as being "de faco/confirmed killed"....

E.g. to wit,

* The photo of EITM LEADER [UIghur Separatism] repor killed in 2003 is the SAME PHOTO used in the past for ABU MUSAB ZARQHAWI [RB's "Zark"} whom was killed long after.

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > TALIBAN VOW NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS IN PAKISTAN [vow to continue their Je-e-e-had until SHARIA LAW is empowered and enforced]. OOOPPPSIES > SAME ARTIC claims FEZZIE [Fezhullah, etc.]is still ALIVE, and NOT WOUNDED OR DEAD AS REPOR IN US-ALLIED MEDIAS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-07-23 21:59|| NA]">[NA] 2009-07-23 21:59|| Front Page Top

#18 Hey, don't pop my bubble. >:-}

Posted by gorb 2009-07-23 22:27|| 2009-07-23 22:27|| Front Page Top

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