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November 24, 2008
Posted by Claire

Another one, make that two, bites the dust…

I found the following two articles on Right Nation:

From the National Terror Alert Response Center. I just love that at the end of the article the website has a place with the various ways to share the digital media… it says (and I quote) “Share and Enjoy!” So, I am sharing and enjoying the fact that another vile, wicked and evil scum bag has been sent on his way.

US Kills Al Qaeda Mastermind of Airline Liquid Bomb Plot – Rashid Rauf

In what would be another major blow to al Qaeda, a CIA missile strike reportedly killed the long-sought British al Qaeda figure believed to have coordinated and planned the 2006 plot to use liquid bombs to blow up eight aircraft bound for the United States and Canada.

27-year old Rashid Rauf was killed, according to Pakistani officials, in an unmanned Predator missile strike against a home in the North Waziristan village of Khaisur shortly before dawn today.

A senior Pakistani intelligence official told ABCNews.com his death cannot be officially confirmed until the results of DNA tests are known because the bodies were burned beyond recognition in the attack.

But the official said the U.S. believes it is certain Rauf was killed.

Source

What? What’s that you say? Another main figure killed in the missile strike? One more reason to share and enjoy the good news this morning:

Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan

Rana Jawad
Sat Nov 22,2008
AFP

Excerpt

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, after spending almost a year on the run.

Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman’s house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district that is a known stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

Also among the five killed in the early morning incident was Egyptian Abu Zubair al-Misri, another wanted Al-Qaeda operative, a senior Pakistani security official said on condition of anonymity.

The transatlantic bombing plot alleged mastermind Rashid Rauf was killed along with an Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative in the US missile strike in North Waziristan early Saturday,” a senior security official told AFP.

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