The CIA has launched more than 20 drone attacks over Waziristan and has already nailed three of the biggest Al Qaeda fish. But Pakistan has been growing increasingly shrill in its opposition, demanding an end to cross-border drone activity. Fair enough:
The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, officials said. Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman’s house in the village of Alikhel… Also among the five killed in the early morning incident was Egyptian Abu Zubair al-Misri, another wanted Al-Qaeda operative… “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. A Western diplomatic source told AFP the missile was fired from a jet across the border in Afghanistan.… Washington has apparently stepped up its missile strikes against suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in tribal areas, however the Saturday morning attack appeared to be the first that was not fired by an unmanned CIA drone.
Almost impossible to believe that he grew up in Britain.
References:
* 10 More Dead as Drone War Over Pakistan Continues [Wired]
* Afghan Official: Coalition strike kills civilians [AP]
* Pakistan to U.S.: Call Off the Killer Drones [Wired]
* Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan: officials [AFP]
* Rashid Rauf: profile of a terror mastermind [Telegraph]
* I’m Going To Miss Westminster Abbey – Thousands Of UK-Born Jihadists In Enclaves Across All Of Britain [MR]
Previously:
* Global Outcry As Pakistan Pounds Terrorist Strongholds In Assassination Response
* Great News – Nuclear Armed Islamic Country With Notoriously Unreliable Safeguards Now Going Bankrupt
* LAT Discovers That Christians Are Being Run Out Of The Middle East, Blames Bush
