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June 04, 2011

Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed In Pakistan by Predator Strike
— Ace

Subtitle:

Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed By Twitter Hack3rz and High Explosives But Mostly High Explosives

I will give Obama a rare shout-out: China claimed that it would treat an attack on Pakistan as an attack on China. What "attack" means wasn't clearly defined; did they mean the state apparatus? Perhaps this was clarified through normal diplomatic channels.

In which case, if China expressly stated "we just mean attacks on the actual nation of Pakistan," not much of a kudo to Obama, but still not bad. He is doing a good job of killing Al Qaeda.

At Long War Journal:

The US has killed Ilyas Kashmiri, one of al Qaeda's most dangerous military commanders and strategists, in a Predator airstrike yesterday in South Waziristan.
Kashmiri is said to be one of nine members of the al Qaeda-linked Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, or HUJI, who were killed in yesterday's Predator airstrike that leveled a compound in the Wana area of South Waziristan. A Harkat-ul Jihad Islami spokesman told Dawn that Kashmiri was killed in the attack.
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"HUJI's statement is a sure sign we got him, we are pretty confident he is dead but we cannot confirm 100 percent," one official told The Long War Journal.
The attack took place in an area of South Waziristan controlled by Mullah Nazir, a Taliban commander who has proudly admitted he is also an al Qaeda leader. The Pakistani military refuses to move against Nazir as he is considered a "good Taliban" leader because he does not attack the state. Nazir does shelter al Qaeda and other terror groups, and carries out attacks in Afghanistan.

The only good Taliban is a #Hacked! Taliban.

Thanks to Marilyn.

More: Hot Air already has this well-covered, and it turns out this seems a Big F'n' Deal, as Joe Biden might say, perhaps about Amtrak adding a new Scranton-to-Albany line.

Lots of important details plucked out there, but this quote gives a flavor:

Â“We will never recover from his loss,Â” a young Afghan who fought with al Qaeda in the tribal area in 2009 and who had seen Kashmiri there tells The Daily Beast. Â“He was the bridge between al Qaeda and the Afghan and Pakistani TalibanÂ…But his spirit will rest calmly because he did his job, and his revenge will be bigger than bin LadenÂ’s revenge.Â”

Posted by: Ace at 08:59 AM | Comments (37)
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1 Whitehouse spokestool Jay Carney can neither confirm nor deny whether Kashmiri was wearing a corncob sombrero at the time.

Posted by: ...And noodles at June 04, 2011 09:01 AM (bMlVI)

2 A person moves up quickly in that organization....unfortunately for them it's not for long.

Posted by: Tami at June 04, 2011 09:04 AM (X6akg)

3 China and Pakistan are pals because................? I'm getting a little sick of the wacky packys protecting terrorists.

Posted by: dagny at June 04, 2011 09:05 AM (Tf2JU)

4 We found him after he claimed he was hacked when his junk was publicly tweeted to a buxom young goat.

Posted by: mugiwara at June 04, 2011 09:06 AM (KI/Ch)

I think India is a big factor. As usual, China has claims to (fill in the blank: here India's) territory.

Posted by: Beagle at June 04, 2011 09:07 AM (sOtz/)

6 The Gleat Peoper's Riberation Army need resson in Amelican game--how you say--poker?

Posted by: General Won Hung Lo at June 04, 2011 09:08 AM (VXBR1)

and his revenge will be bigger than bin LadenÂ’s revenge.Â”

umm, what "Been Laudin revenge?

Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at June 04, 2011 09:11 AM (08Pe8)

8 I wish we could bring back napalm. Jihadis running around in flames screaming is so much funnier than Jihadis just getting abruptly converted to offal by a supersonic shockwave. And Jihadis light up really easily, because of the grease and that handy turban, or as we used to call it, 'the wick'.

Posted by: David Gillies at June 04, 2011 09:12 AM (FdBA0)

9 Obama is probably shitting himself right now wondering how The International CommunityÂ® is going to react to his aggression. That is until he can crow about it and drag another corpse around til next November. Still, I'm glad the goatfucker is dead.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at June 04, 2011 09:13 AM (UciSl)

10 China just dumped 97% of its short-term Treasuries and is dumping the longer-term ones as fast as they can. They are insulating themselves against financial damage from a US/China confrontation.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at June 04, 2011 09:15 AM (qvify)

11 The press would scream bloody murder if Bush treated airstrikes inside Pakistan as casually as Obama does, but...well...good on Obama for keeping the heat up.

There. I said it.

Posted by: S. Weasel at June 04, 2011 09:19 AM (SJTLr)

12 Obama the merciless! He can use this next week to counteract the lousy economy. "See, I killed--------- fill in the blank.......I'm super macho man.....

Posted by: Donna at June 04, 2011 09:19 AM (bdE9c)

13 China and Pakistan are pals because................? I'm getting a little sick of the wacky packys protecting terrorists.
Posted by: dagny at June 04, 2011 01:05 PM (Tf2JU)

They are both longtime enemies of India, (the old enemy's/enemy/friend).

Posted by: ontherocks at June 04, 2011 09:21 AM (HBqDo)

14 ". . . and his revenge will be bigger than bin LadenÂ’s revenge."

Well, have at it, you goatfuckers. And keep one eye on the sky. Captain Awesome is on the watch!

Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at June 04, 2011 09:28 AM (4sQwu)

If you search the India-China cold war it really only goes back to the 1962 War. You'd think given the age of the civilizations it would be more, but that's it. One author in 2010 called another China-India war inevitable, Time article.

Too bad IE 9 makes it impossible to use most websites or use any of the handy features at AoSHQ. Upgrade fever, catch it! Yeah, I know, download Firefox and start over. Been there, done that.

Posted by: Beagle at June 04, 2011 09:29 AM (sOtz/)

16 Ah, yes, another AQ operative moved from the Active to the Good column in my Excel sheet. Hats off to the operator who unleashed the AGM-114 (just a guess) and to anyone who may have scribbled a pithy comment on the nose of that revenge package.

Posted by: Errol at June 04, 2011 09:48 AM (uAzAD)

17 Why does Obama just freely kill these brown people? Because he's racist, that's why....

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at June 04, 2011 09:50 AM (v0pFT)

18 I had read elsewhere (and no, I cannot link to it) that a schism was developing between the Egyptian (Muslin Brotherhood) and Afghanistan (bin Laden and Kashmiri) branches of Al Queda.

Perchance the former is feeding us information on the latter, in hopes that we'll do the heavy lifting/housecleaning?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at June 04, 2011 09:58 AM (/U/Mr)

i guess that means that any actionable intel to be gathered was blown to shit also.

Posted by: stormin1961 at June 04, 2011 10:15 AM (Foooh)

". . . and his revenge will be bigger than bin LadenÂ’s revenge."

The 'revenge' attack they talk about was against the Pakistan military. The same military that most likely protected Bin Laden there for years. Yeah, ok. We blow up one of you, they kill each other in revenge.....sounds like a plan.

Posted by: landofskybluewater at June 04, 2011 10:35 AM (XthHy)

Eventually, there will be blowback from this. It won't be pretty. Endless war is....endless.

That said understand there isn't any tears shed on my end for dead jihadis.

Posted by: torabora at June 04, 2011 10:37 AM (XL2DT)

Why do they keep becoming outraged and having enragement with rage and furious fury?

O'Bama has The Peace Prize! From a Committee! That should count for something. They should listen to His Words as we do.

Posted by: DougS at June 04, 2011 10:55 AM (Xet17)

23 He is doing a good job of killing Al Qaeda.

The only reason the targeted Al Qaida killings are continuing under Obie's watch is because he has no choice.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at June 04, 2011 11:27 AM (TG5lG)

24 ". . . and his revenge will be bigger than bin LadenÂ’s revenge." Well, it certainly can't be smaller, can it?

Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2011 11:32 AM (FcR7P)

25 China just dumped 97% of its short-term Treasuries and is dumping the longer-term ones as fast as they can. They are insulating themselves against financial damage from a US/China confrontation. OT: I'm just guessing that we bought those treasuries back from China, and now we're going to default on...ourselves?

Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2011 11:34 AM (FcR7P)

26 Most dangerous job in the world since 2001.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2011 11:38 AM (bxiXv)

Too bad IE 9 makes it impossible to use most websites or use any of the handy features at AoSHQ. Upgrade fever, catch it! Yeah, I know, download Firefox and start over. Been there, done that.

Posted by: Beagle at June 04, 2011 01:29 PM (sOtz/)

The best thing about standards is that there are so many of them!

Seriously, about IE 14 people will finally get sick of MS dicking with internet standards. You can't just re-write standards everybody has to use without pissing people off.

Not that FF4 isn't Full of Lose, man, it's like there's some universal principle that things get better for a while, and then by the immutable laws of physics they must get worse.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2011 11:40 AM (bxiXv)

28 I saw a picture of Ilyas Kashmiri. I sure hope that he's a real dead jihadi and not Ben Stiller in wig, makeup, glasses and false beard.

Posted by: stuiec at June 04, 2011 11:40 AM (HMdeP)

29 So he didn't choke to death on a Weiner?

Posted by: andycanuck at June 04, 2011 12:29 PM (DUOUR)

30 IT's a complete waste of time to be celebrating every time some an Islmaic hetman is killed half-way across the world. There will be another to take his place while the corps is still smoking. How much money and manpower is expended in each one of these kills. At the same time, muslim immigration to our country has been steadily increasing since around 2003, rising under Bush and now under Obama, and the Islamic terror attacks along with attempted attacks have been steadily increasing as well. So we're expending resources and risking the lives of our soldiers "over there" while hordes of them are streaming in "over here." Yet still, no one has proposed the wisest solution which would be a total moratorium on immigration from muslim lands.

The Neocon catchphrase used to argue for extended military involvement in the Middle East and and far-off Bactria- " We're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here", has proven complete folly. With the attack at Fort Hood by Nidal Hasan, anyone can see the failure. Yet we've learned nothing.

We weren't struck on 9/11 because muslims were in Afghanistan, we were struck because muslims were in the US.

Posted by: sartana at June 04, 2011 01:20 PM (/IW23)

31 Until you know that you will not be groped at an airport, MEH!

Posted by: Chuckit at June 04, 2011 01:26 PM (YFmzq)

32 23 He is doing a good job of killing Al Qaeda.

The only reason the targeted Al Qaida killings are continuing under Obie's watch is because he has no choice.

My thoughts exactly. If the indonesian idiot had a choice he wouldn't be doing jack shit. All credit goes to our Warriors who continue to do an amazing job killing our enemies and defending America, despite the lack of leadership in the White House and the Pentagon (talking to you Mullen's, you buddy fucking prick).

Posted by: Theresa, MSgt (ret), USAF at June 04, 2011 01:32 PM (6t/p5)

33 My, seems like AQ these days has a rather high turn-over rate. On second thought, turn-under rate might be the better phrase.

Posted by: Cortillaen at June 04, 2011 01:54 PM (VE37E)

Holy Shit! I don't know if you've looked at this guys pic in the link or not, but I think they accidentally killed Ben stiller.

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35 Obama - the right president for the job.

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