Sponsored Content
« More Tone Deafness By Democrats In MA Senate Race: You Know What Symbolizes Greed? The World Trade Center | Main | Tea Partiers Taking Over the GOP, Precinct by Precinct »
January 15, 2010

Head of Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula Killed by Catholic Working in Emergency Room and Drone-Strike but Mostly Drone-Strike

Whatever we do, let's not militarize this problem.

Damn military solutions are so worthless.

The military chief of the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda was killed in an airstrike Friday, according to reports from the country's official news agency.

Qasim al-Raymi, a deputy commander of the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was reportedly one of six suspected militants killed by a Yemeni strike targeting two cars traveling in the country's north, Yemen's SABA news agency reported.

"Two cars carrying eight dangerous Al Qaeda members were hit in an area between Saada and al-Jouf," a Yemeni security official told Reuters. "Two may have survived and escaped."

I assume that there is some irony here -- if this was a big blast, his underwear must have exploded too.

In addition, a top Pakistan Taliban leader may have been killed.

-- A U.S. missile strike might have killed the top Taliban leader in Pakistan on Thursday even as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani told Parliament that the drone attacks were a threat to the nation's sovereignty and could "undermine the war on terror."

The attack came during a three-day visit to Pakistan by U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke.

Missiles from a U.S. unmanned aircraft struck a compound once used as a religious school in northwest Pakistan, where Hakimullah Mehsud, one of the most wanted men in the country, was thought to have spent the night. Mehsud recently inherited the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban, which seeks to overthrow the Pakistani government and replace it with a rudimentary Islamic theocracy.


Thanks to DrewM.


digg this
posted by Ace at 01:17 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
zombie yogi berra: "Oh, no! Deja-vu all over again! ..."

Cicero (@cicero43): "Orca Windfree ..."

DB - he gets the nod: "Joe Biden: "You don't got the bookkeeper, you don' ..."

Mister Scott (Formerly GWS): "Someone is building an off ramp for joe biden. Po ..."

Biff Pocoroba : "No sir. Not gonna nood. ..."

Dark Force Thirsting For Power: "Why is no one going straight for the bank records? ..."

Ben Had: "I don't want impeachment. I want Bribe'em to be t ..."

Christopher Taylor [/i][/i][/s][/s][/b][/b][/u][/u]: "[i]There are times, as a journalist, when it's bes ..."

Oldcat: "Ukraine is the organized crime of DC's Restaurant. ..."

Kindltot: "[i]So, anyone else want to dispute the ongoing war ..."

DB - he gets the nod: ">It's a felony for someone in the FBI to delete ev ..."

Skip : "I was watching videos of Metallica Unforgiven I, I ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64