Drone strike in Pakistan targets al Qaeda leader
Senior al Qaeda figure Abu Yahya al Libi
/ Al Sahab(CBS News) U.S. officials confirm that a drone strike early today in Pakistan targeted al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi. But officials still can't say whether al Libi was hit in the strike.
If confirmed, al Libi's death would be a big blow to the remaining Pakistan-based core of al Qaeda. He is among a handful of senior advisors left from the inner circle of al Qaeda founder Osama bin laden. al Libi has served as a leading propagandist for the group, an operational leader, and most recently as second-in command to new al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri.
Relentless drone strikes have seriously thinned the senior ranks of the al Qaeda network. In the past two years more than a dozen top leaders have been killed by U.S. strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, among them bin Laden and US born cleric Anwar al Awlaki.
U.S. officials say the terror group may no longer be capable of a large scale strike against the United States, but caution that it remains a danger.
The Associated Press reports that the strike was the seventh drone strike in less than two weeks in Pakistan, which is demanding that the United States end the program. Pakistani intelligence officials told the AP that four missiles were fired at a suspected hideout in North Waziristan, a tribal area near the Afghanistan border, early Monday morning. The suspected militants were reportedly gathered to honor a militant commander who had been killed in an early drone strike at the time of the attack.
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In any case, you completely missed the point. It's not about how likely a situation is, it's about the moral equivalence. The reason Americans think it's OK to kill anyone you want to, anywhere in the world, with no legal evidence whatsoever, is because you think you have more moral rights than any other people in the world. THAT is why you are hated across most of the world.
As far as being hated around the world.. I could care fr1cken less. Most of these people are not our friend.. The only thing I'm worried about is our stopping these terrorist before they commit more harm... And buy the way that man's name was on our stack of 50 cards for years.. Do you remember this? Did pakistan even try to bring him in for questioning.. H@ll no.. don't tell me nobody knew he was there.
Al Qaeda's deputy leader, Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in a drone strike in northern Pakistan, an American official confirmed on Tuesday, in the biggest single success in the controversial campaign's eight-year history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbTOSJp97DM
thechooch1 - "Pakistan is harboring terrorists, we are not" Are you REALLY sure about that? I bet before 9/11 you were sure there were no terrorists training in the USA!
Why don't you answer the question?
You proposed a hypothetical question about Pakistan bombing the USA. You might as well asked what we would do if the Sun didn't rise tomorrow. NOT going to happen.
Why don't you answer the question?
I don't know what 6000 number you are talking about and you've got your people confused. "fedup12" is somebody else who posts here from time to time on CBS. My handle is "Fed-Up_Patriot". Maybe you should respond to "fedup12" wherever it was that he posted this "6000" number. Respectfully, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Oh wait a minute... Was the issue that "fedup12" replied to me I didn't see it and then you replied. After this somebody come along and flagged his comment and had it taken down? I'm confused. I don't know what happened here.