Top Al Qaeda Official Believed Killed

(CBS)  CBS News has confirmed a Hellfire missile was fired from an unmanned Predator drone and likely killed a top al Qaeda official in Pakistan. Unnamed officials tell CBS News the al Qaeda figure killed was not Osama bin Laden nor his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports the drone attack was in the mountainous Pakistani border area.

Details of the attack are still emerging, but a source with a variety of intelligence information told CBS News correspondent Peter Maer that the drone killed one of the top five terrorists on the U.S. wanted list. The source called it a "major hit" whose name will be "recognizable to many" when it becomes public.

However, officials told Dozier they have to study the strike zone, and the behavior of the al Qaeda operatives left behind to see either if they hold a funeral for the suspected target or somehow move to replace him to be able to confirm the target's identity.

"We have to study the pattern of life for a couple days, and see if anyone steps forward to take the target's place," a counterterrorism official told Dozier. "Then we have an idea that we did get him. Normally we wait for the NSA to study the area for 24 to 36 hours after a strike like this. We don't have that information back yet."

One official pointed out they're taking a target out nearly every day, and the hard part is proving who they got, Dozier reports.

[noloyalisti]

Of course he was Al Quada. He's dead, isn't he? He was killed by the American terrorists fighting the Bush Christian Crusade. For oil and money laundering purposes.

[YoureSoWrong15]

Oh slave of Jihad. Oh slave of Marx.
Wear the rags and sleep in the parks.

[frounds]

Bin Laden died two weeks after leaving Tora Bora. He died of renal failure as he was traversing a 14,000 foot mountain range. He was buried in an innocuous location and those in his party are all dead. Hence, we shall never find the remains. Bin Laden's demise will go down in history much like Hitler's who's body was never found.

[slimpicins]

One's not enough; kill all of them.

[SamRma]

The world needs to hear from the moderate Islamic communities. When the blasphemy laws are applied in countries such as Pakistan and non-Muslims are killed, are those keepers of the law being good Muslims or bad ones? The world needs to hear. When freedoms are so restricted in Islamic countries that no Muslim is allowed to disbelieve in Islam with impunity, is that a good Muslim law or a bad one? The freedom to believe -- or not -- is one of the most sacred privileges of the human mind. That freedom is taken away in the name of Islam. Statistics that indicate that Islam is growing are not an accurate reflection of the hearts of the people, because they really have no choice. Until those who are not Muslims are free to practice their faith in Muslim countries -- and those who seek to become Christians or choose another faith can do so with impunity -- Islam will never be free from the fear it can engender. I pray for such a day, when one's ultimate choice in life can be made without fear of terror and hate."

~Ravi Zacharias / Light in the Shadow of Jihad~

[briannorwood]

Top Al Queda operative killed in Pakistan?

Gee, I didn't even know Cheney was in Pakistan!

[FauxNews]

Seems we never run out of "Top Al Qaeda Officials", they are the perfect boogiemen for scaring Conservatives.

[DaVicar8]

Drones Rule!!!

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money-01]

What are you droning on about?

[mrjustice1]

AGAIN AND AGAIN, IT'S THAT SCOURGE OF MANKIND TO BLAME: RELIGION

If secularization of the unfortunate, brainwashed-by-religion people of the world can become a global requirement, we then will be on the right track to resolve religious conflict. Apply such requirements particularly to the three Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Read Bertrand Russell's
"Why I'm Not A Christian."

Religion and the mentality; the delusional ways of thinking;
the 'KILL-AND-MURDER-FOR' mindset that religion creates...

...is far more dangerous, far more destructive, and far more deadly than many of us are able to imagine.

With the advent of massively-destructive nuclear, chemical, AND/OR biological weapons and devices' reaching maniacal Islamofascist 'religious' terrorists, especially leaders of Iran, whose

SPECIFIC PURPOSE IS TO USHER IN, AND TO PRECIPITATE THE RETURN OF THE 12TH IMAM OR MAHDI - THE MOSLEM MESSIAH - BY CAUSING A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST,
[research Mahdi or The 12th Imam, and Iranian President Achmadinejad's 'accordingly' delusional belief and purpose to 'engineer' such event]

RELIGION AND THE MINDSET IT CREATES MUST BE ELIMINATED - AND MUST BE ELIMINATED VERY, VERY SOON.

IF NOT, WE SHOULD EXPECT THAT END-OF-LIFE, END-OF-MANKIND SCENARIO...

...SOMETIME SOON!

[mrjustice1]

by mrjustice1 November 21, 2009 11:18 AM EST
ABSOLUTELY LEGISLATE LAWS TO MAKE THE RICH CONTRIBUTE MORE

After all, the rich/upper class became well-off by this country's providing so much toward their success.

It's only fair that the rich, powerful and influential, also give back more to America. That also means:

They should also fight and die on the frontlines instead of expending poorer people's lives for the rich people's selfish agendas.

[DaVicar8]

I take it you don't like rich people.

[FauxNews]

Legislate laws to make the poor people work.

After all, the poor can become well-off in this country if they work toward their success.

It's only fair that the poor also give back to America. That also means:

They should get a job and make money in the workplace instead of staying at home with their selfish agendas.

[mooseslayer]

Everyone says bin laden wants to bankrupt the country?? how about the MUSLIM obama man>?? He's doing a great job of it. Send him back to kenya, NOW !