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2022-09-26 Afghanistan
Scaled Replica of Al-Qaeda Leader's Hideout on Display in CIA Museum
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) displayed the replica of 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 orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
’s hideout in the CIA museum, which was used to plan the US drone operation that killed the al-Qaeda supremo last month.

Inside the CIA’s Virginia headquarters is the organization’s museum, which has a scale replica of the five-story house with white walls and three partially covered balconies where the al-Qaeda chief was killed.

The museum is only open to guests and staff of the agency; it is not open to the public. As part of a larger initiative to highlight the agency’s history and accomplishments, the CIA reportedly permitted journalists to tour the museum, which had recently been renovated in time for the CIA’s 75th anniversary.
"And here's where we plotted with MI-6 and the FBI on the Trump Dossier"
Nearly a year after the US withdrew from Afghanistan, concluding a two-decade conflict in which the CIA played a key part; al-Zawahiri was killed using the unique scale model of his residence in Kabul.

Two Hellfire missiles launched from a CIA drone killed the al-Qaeda leader while causing very little damage elsewhere to prevent non-combatant fatalities.

The group has not yet been successful in finding Ayman al-Zawahiri’s body according to a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
official, after stating that the group did not have the knowledge of the al-Qaeda chief’s stay in Kabul.

Related: The article has a photo of the thing, Tolo News has a video.

Posted by Fred 2022-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 Imagine Hellfire missile strikes on CIA headquarters. We can all dream...
Posted by Sheba Smith8503 2022-09-26 04:07||   2022-09-26 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 
"Waaagh"

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-26 05:09||   2022-09-26 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 A tribute to the CIA only for CIA eyes. A waste of tax payer dollars.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-09-26 06:07||   2022-09-26 06:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Other 'tributes' such as the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library can be visited by anyone.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-26 06:20||   2022-09-26 06:20|| Front Page Top

#5 You've got to keep bored agents busy.
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2022-09-26 10:28||   2022-09-26 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Re: #2 What are we looking at Dron?
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-09-26 10:39||   2022-09-26 10:39|| Front Page Top

#7 It is right next to the Mar-a-lago replica in the CIA museum.
Posted by Airandee 2022-09-26 10:56||   2022-09-26 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 It should be next to a diorama of the burning World Trade Center and a list of all of the CIA executives that were quietly defenestrated for gross incompetence (pour encourager les autres...).
Posted by magpie 2022-09-26 11:30||   2022-09-26 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 What are we looking at Dron?

I believe that is an Ork base.

Hard to tell now that the SJWs have infected Warhammer40k. Could be Modern College Library.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-26 20:51||   2022-09-26 20:51|| Front Page Top

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