Al-Qaeda says key member killed
It is always nice to see good news for a change.
From correspondents in Dubai, May 11, 2008, The Australian
A PROMINENT member of Al-Qaeda has been killed in fighting with US-led forces in Afghanistan, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website today.
-I bet he was hiding under a rock screaming for his mommy.
Abu Suleiman al-Otaibi, formerly one of the group’s leaders in Iraq, was killed in a “fierce battle with the worshipers of the cross” in Paktia, it said without giving the date of the battle.
-Most of these “fierce battles” are one way affairs, US forces find them, fix them and eliminate them. There is no battle just a good old American ass kickin
Another Al-Qaeda member, identified as Abu Dejana al-Qahtani, also died in the fighting, it added.
-Probably of fright.
The leader of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said Qahtani left Iraq about six months ago without giving further details.
-Oh the heat was too much for precious and he thought afghanistan would be safe.
Otaibi was the head of the judiciary at the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a group started by Al-Qaeda and fellow Sunni militant groups.
Violence has been at its worst level in Afghanistan since 2006, the bloodiest period since the removal of the Al-Qaeda-backed Taliban in 2001.
-Looks like things are a changing.
US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001 after its leaders refused to hand over Osama bin Laden and his top aides to the US for trial for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on US cities.
-In hindsight they probably deeply regret that decision.
