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Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In US Drone Attack
2009-07-23
Look how dey massacred my boy...
U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden -- a son of Osama bin Laden -- has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan.

Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan, according to former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year.
Went all that day to Pakistain just to get drone-zapped?
A senior U.S. counterterrorism official tells NPR that without a body to conduct DNA tests on, it's hard to be completely sure. But he characterized U.S. spy agencies as being "80 to 85 percent" certain that Saad bin Laden is dead.

The U.S. counterterrorism official says Saad bin Laden wasn't important enough to target personally -- that he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

He was active in al-Qaida, but was not a major player, the official said. He was believed to be in his late 20s."We make a big deal out of him because of his last name," the official added.

It's not known whether Saad bin Laden was anywhere near his father when he died.
Too bad he wasn't sitting in his lap...
Posted by:tu3031

#18  Hey, don't pop my bubble. >:-}
Posted by: gorb   2009-07-23 22:27  

#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  

#16  By "arrest", the Iranians mean luxury villa compounds on the Caspian Sea.
Posted by: ed   2009-07-23 20:37  

#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  

#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  

#13  Well, it is an NPR story...
Posted by: tu3031   2009-07-23 16:34  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#9  Bacon flavored candies for everyone!

Will these do?
Posted by: Frozen Al   2009-07-23 11:16  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#1  We need to hit the funeral. Never Forgive, Never Forget.
Posted by: Destro_in_Panama   2009-07-23 00:11  

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