The latest missile strike, however, underscored the increasing turmoil along that border. The strike, apparently carried out by an unpiloted drone, killed at least six people in a compound in Pakistan’s tribal regions near the Afghan border Monday, including a senior Al Qaeda operative, residents and officials in the area said.
The missile strike was one of several in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas this year that have been aimed at Al Qaeda members. One Pakistani security official and a resident in the area said the attack might have killed a trainer and weapons expert known as Abu Khabab al-Misri, though there was no confirmation of that. The same expert was reported killed in a similar raid in January 2006.
A spokesman of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, Carl Kropf, declined to comment on the missile strike. Another American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities of attacking targets in Pakistan, said if that Qaeda expert had been killed in the attack – and officials were still awaiting confirmation – it would deal Al Qaeda a significant blow.
“This guy is one of their absolute key specialists in poisons and explosives,” said the official. “He was also a key trainer of people involved in operations inside and outside the tribal areas.”
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Exactly what does this have to do with Obama? Really, I’m actually wondering…not trying to be snarky. I’m obviously missing something.
http://www.reuters.com/article…
Of course McCain lied about what Obama said saying
Of course what Obama actually said was
http://www.time-blog.com/swamp…
Thanks Danny.
In a primary far, far away, Obama said he’d go after al Qaeda where it was hiding, in the uncharted backwaters of Pakistan (i.e. Waziristan), and that he’d do it without informing the Pakistani government if he felt it necessary. He was ridiculed as being politically naive for his comments.
According to Reuters, this latest attack was done without the knowledge of the Pakistani military, and may have been targeted at an al Qaeda chemist and bomb-maker.
…especially if the ignorance is possessed by the leaders of the country that you are attacking. Is this something to be encouraged? I’m just wondering over here.
http://www.infowars.net/articl…
I’m sorry you are so confused
The Pakistani government isn’t in a position to really be our friend when it comes to al Qaeda. They have little to no authority in Waziristan, so they can’t be of much official use regardless.
Our choices are limited: let al Qaeda go, overthrow the Pakistani government, declare war on Pakistan, or authorize these covert attacks. Of the lot, the Bush Administration has apparently come to its senses in agreeing with Obama’s stated preference on the matter: covertly attack al Qaeda.
By attacking covertly, the Pakistani government has plausible deniability to its more anti-U.S. factions. They can’t claim we’re attacking them as a nation when the targets are explicitly defined as being al Qaeda, unless they also want to declare their allegiance to bin Laden and his cronies.
…pointed them out. Barack said, “Look, there!”, and everyone was educated. So sayeth the Psalms.
Well if people knew, they sure have neglected it.
Obama has been talking about the centrality of Afghanistan for YEARS. The neglect by Bush and McCain of Afghanistan is almost criminally negligent considering that is where the killers of 9-11 are and were.
There is no Iraq passport stamp in Bin Laden’s passport.
…..for how many years exactly, doesn’t matter. Since 2004 he’s been in the Senate, talking important things. Thank Goodness we can trust the immigration/custom officials of Iraqi airports to identify the travelings of self-proclaimed terrorists! Without this we have nothing.
What you wrote doesn’t make sense so I want to make sure I am not picking on someone with a cognative disability.
The Key to his opposition to the invasion of Iraq in 2002 was that it was a distraction from fighting our real enemy. al Qaeda.
The passport line was a snark to point to the truth: The only al Qaeda in Iraq is the al Qaeda that we brought with us.
…….for I thought you made sense. Forgive me. I only wondered (in passsing, mind you, don’t commit me, just yet!) what the passport line was all about. Now I know not to question such hi-falutin’ conceptions. I genuflect toward the the “Key,” never to wander. Let’s finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda!
Vamos!!
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but this raises some doubt:
I was a heavy weapons specialist, for sneaky pete’s sake,
and even I would have qualified as an expert on explosives.
Everyone on my 12-man A-Detachment would have.
There is no shortage of expertise in these matters,
in Pakistan or in Ouagadougou.
That’s sort of characteristic of asymmetric opponents who work in independent cells.
If we’re still trying to decapitate something that doesn’t have one single head,
something that regrows heads faster than lizards regrow tails,
we’ve got a long, long way to Tipperary.
Team 526, Co B, 5/19th SF
Colorado Army National Guard
Pueblo, CO
1975-77
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A trainer is a valuable target in any insurgency.
This guy has a $5m bounty on his head, so I’m guessing he’s worth more than your ordinary “explosives expert”.
The military exaggerates the value of targets killed all the time, but the act itself does lend to Obama’s foreign policy. I admire his leadership here, but I do worry about acting militarily within the borders of an ally like Pakistan. BHO needs to make this a distinction between he and McCain.