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2007-07-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Debka: US Special Forces & Pakistanis close in on Zawahiri

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-15 16:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Lots of salt. But heart be still. Would indeed be very good news if it happens.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-15 16:55|| 2007-07-15 16:55|| Front Page Top

#2 It would be nice to see him with a round drilled right through that knot on his forehead...

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-15 17:07|| 2007-07-15 17:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd rather they kill "knot head" Screech than find UBL's corpse - he's dead, and has been for a while

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-15 17:18|| 2007-07-15 17:18|| Front Page Top

#4 the tribal chiefs with knowledge of where the elusive al Qaeda leader was hiding were holding out for an exorbitant sum for their collaboration.

Hey, if $50 Million ain't enough maybe we should toss in a nail gun and a cordless drill. They oughta become real talkative after a few minutes. If this weren't Debka it would be really great news.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-15 17:29|| 2007-07-15 17:29|| Front Page Top

#5 horseback by night piloted by local guides.

Infra-red signature?

Posted by Skunky Glins5285">Skunky Glins5285 2007-07-15 18:12|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-15 18:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Wazoo needs a good Shake-and-Whack, to put the freshness back.

Posted by Fun Boy 4 2007-07-15 18:17|| 2007-07-15 18:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Baloney

Posted by SR-71 2007-07-15 18:47|| 2007-07-15 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 If DEBKA is reporting it, I would say it is pretty certain that we are nowhere near Zawahiri. You can pretty much count on anything they report being based on rectal extraction.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-07-15 19:42|| 2007-07-15 19:42|| Front Page Top

#9 " According to DEBKAfiles counter-terror sources, al Qaeda and Taliban leaders do not travel from place to place by road or vehicle but on horseback by night piloted by local guides."

Well, then .. they should be very easy to spot. We are able to track people at night very easily and since they would be pretty much the only traffic moving at that time of day, if that were their mode of travel, they would have been blasted a long time ago. The story is crap. If they want to avoid detection, they would travel in the day embedded in regular traffic flows. Traveling at night would make them very easy targets indeed.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-07-15 19:46|| 2007-07-15 19:46|| Front Page Top

#10 It's pretty rough terrain IIUC. Even if we were flying UAVs across the whole area constantly, I suspect we could easily lose them unless we had very specific intel from the ground to guide the surveillance.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-15 20:04|| 2007-07-15 20:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, mr finger wag is next.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-07-15 20:10|| 2007-07-15 20:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Binny does have the hottest, skinny, little, curved index fingers in the 4th World, dontcha know?

Posted by Asymmetrical T">Asymmetrical T 2007-07-15 20:34|| 2007-07-15 20:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Every once in a while DEBKA actually does get out in front of a real story.... in this case, show me the body.

Posted by Black Charlie Choluns6175 2007-07-15 20:37|| 2007-07-15 20:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Zawahiri talked about Lal Masjid two days after the army moved in.
Wherever he is, he can get his garbage recorded, video edited and released in 48 hours.
Remote village ?
My money is on Ralwalpindi Cantonment..

Posted by John Frum 2007-07-15 20:50|| 2007-07-15 20:50|| Front Page Top

#15 I would announce the reward is being decreased $10k a week.

That would give people and incentive to turn in Zawahiri before the reward dwindled.

Posted by mhw 2007-07-15 20:54|| 2007-07-15 20:54|| Front Page Top

#16 "My money is on Ralwalpindi Cantonment.."

He's probably sitting in a suburb of Detroit for all we know.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-07-15 21:51|| 2007-07-15 21:51|| Front Page Top

#17 "US Special Forces" > Zawi must be denoting the irony.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-07-15 21:53|| 2007-07-15 21:53|| Front Page Top

#18 I would announce the reward is being decreased $10k a week.

I like the way you think, mhw! Be sure to advise the locals that once the reward sum zeros out bombing strikes begin. Just a little extra incentive, ya know?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-15 22:05|| 2007-07-15 22:05|| Front Page Top

#19 Interesting map from Pak Tribune

Posted by John Frum 2007-07-15 22:16|| 2007-07-15 22:16|| Front Page Top

#20 love the map. says it all

Posted by Abu do you love 2007-07-15 22:23|| 2007-07-15 22:23|| Front Page Top

#21 I really like your sense of humor, John Frum. As others here have already noted, the erudite nature of your posts is a welcome relief from the "diaper head" and "wrap them in bacon" school of playground diatribes.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-15 22:28|| 2007-07-15 22:28|| Front Page Top

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