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Al Qaeda Number 3 Killed... Again
Three really does seem to be the magic number
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The next time you consider voicing opposition to the illegal
bombardment of Pakistan with drone delivered U.S. missiles,
consider this - the drones are effective. So effective, in fact,
that they can kill terrorists who have already previously been
killed.
Once again this week we have been reliably informed by U.S.
officials via the ever present SITE intelligence group via the
terrorists themselves, that a drone delivered missile has successfully
taken
out Al Qaeda's number three man:
The operational leader of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was killed
in an American missile strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas
in the last two weeks, according to a statement from the terrorist
group issued late Monday that American officials believe is
correct.
The militant leader, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian, was
a top financial chief for Al Qaeda as well as one of the group’s
founders, and was considered by American intelligence officials
as terrorist organization’s No. 3 leader behind Osama
bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, another Egyptian.
al-Yazid a.k.a. Saeed al-Masri is thought to be a long time
associate of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. The 9/11
Commission pinpointed him as a possible direct financier of
the attacks. He also most notably was alleged to have claimed
responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
The timing of al-Yazid/al-Masri's reported demise is remarkable
as it comes at exactly the same time as a major UN report that
says the drone strikes are illegal and should be
stopped immediately.
Even more remarkable, however, is the fact that al-Yazid/al-Masri
was reported
dead almost two years ago. This from the London
Guardian in August 2008:
A leading al-Qaida military commander, reputed to be number
three in the terror group, has been killed following several
days of fierce fighting in Pakistan's North West Frontier
province.
Abu Saeed al-Masri, identified in local media reports as
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, al-Qaida's commander in Afghanistan,
died during a battle in the Bajaur tribal area.
"This time it sounds like intelligence officials have higher
confidence that he's actually been killed," says
Matthew Waxman, a law professor at Columbia University
and a former Pentagon and National Security Council official.
Regular readers will be familiar with our previous
articles on the magic merry-go-round of al Qaeda
terrorists who keep rising from the dead and escaping multiple
captures.
The "al Qaeda number three" is a particularly magic
position because pretty much every terrorist that the mythical
group is affiliated with seems to have held the distinction.
Way back in 2005, Timothy Noah of Slate
magazine identified four different number threes,
then
there were six, that number shortly
increased to nine.
Those reported to be al qaeda's number three man include:
Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Abu Hamza Rabia, Abu Laith al-Libi, Abu
Saeed al-Masri, Abu Yahya al-Libi, Saif al-Adel, Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaida.
The jokes come thick and fast - "The No. 4 spot, however,
is always a man on his way up in the world.", "It's
like being drummer in Spinal Tap." etc etc.
The number three saga is yet another example of how a manufactured
smoke and mirrors propaganda veils reality. The "war on
terror" mantra continues to be propagated as justification
to wage permanent occupation and control over the middle east
by the global elite.
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