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| Senior al Qaeda Canuck military commander killed in Predator strike |
| 2010-02-20 |
| Bill Roggio's LWJ: Nice that his funeral led to Haqqani's The US killed a key al Qaeda military leader based in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan during an airstrike on Feb. 17. Sheikh Mansoor was killed in a Predator attack that targeted a Taliban compound in the village of Tapi near Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan. Two other "militants" were initially reported killed in the airstrike; it is not currently known if there were any other senior al Qaeda or Taliban operatives killed. Dawn News reported that the airstrike "left number of other important militants killed." Both Geo News and Dawn reported that a funeral was held for Mansoor, and that Mohammed Haqqani, a mid-level Haqqani Network military commander and brother of the group's top military commander Siraj Haqqani, was killed by another drone strike while preparing to attend Mansoor's burial on Feb. 18. LOL US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said they believe Sheikh Mansoor was killed in the attack on Feb. 17. "We're pretty sure that Mohammed Haqqani was killed while going to Sheikh Mansoor's burial," an intelligence official said. "We were gunning for Siraj but got his little brother instead. It is still a good kill; the Haqqanis are dangerous and Mohammed was involved in the family business." Sheikh Mansoor was a commander in al Qaeda's Lashkar al Zil, or the Shadow Army, US officials said. He was based in North Waziristan but carried out attacks against US and Afghan forces across the border in Afghanistan. Mansoor's family has a pedigree in jihad. His father was Ahmed Said Al Khadr, an al Qaeda operative who was killed in October 2003. Khadr, who is also known as Abdul Rehman Khadr al Kanadi, was born in Cairo, Egypt, but was a Canadian national. Khadr was a close confidant of Osama bin Laden, who invited Kanadi to join the Shura Majlis, the top leadership council, after the US invasion of Afghanistan. Khadr was tasked with helping al Qaeda families escape into Pakistan. He was also close to South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir, who shelters al Qaeda leaders in the Wazir tribal areas. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 hokay |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-02-20 23:59 |
| #5 You forgot to chop the bodies up into little bits, stomp them, and then boil them in acid. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-02-20 23:21 |
| #4 These days, they'll be heading down to the welfare office in Toronto on Monday to ask for suvivor benefits... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-02-20 23:20 |
| #3 Thats how they did it in the old days and it was apparently quite effective. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-02-20 22:58 |
| #2 And their houses razed, the crops burned, stock killed and land plowed with salt. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-02-20 22:56 |
| #1 the Khadr family tree should be pulled out by the roots, burned, and sprayed with herbicide after |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-02-20 20:42 |