A Pashtu-language Pakistani television channel has reported that deputy Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri was killed in a July 28 US airstrike on a madrassa in the Pakistani tribal belt along the Afghan border, sources informed Stratfor on Aug 1. AVT Khyber TV quoted unnamed sources in its July 29 news broadcast as saying that al-Zawahiri was among three Arabs killed in a strike against the seminary in Zeralita village in the Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan agency in the Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA). The channel also interviewed an official from the Pakistani army's Inter-Services Public Relations directorate who said the military was aware of the incident but could not confirm the report.
At this stage, it is very difficult to say whether Al-Zawahiri or Al-Masri or another Al-Qaeda leader was killed in the July 28 strike. It is interesting, however, that there have been no denials from the United States, Pakistan or the jihadists (though we have heard rumors of a possible pending announcement by the United States). At the moment, it appears the Khyber TV report should not be dismissed as just another rumor.- AP
In October 2001 my cousin visited and told us all he had decided he could no longer work for Morgan Stanley, and was going to volunteer to go back into the Army. It took ahile, but he finally did, and since then he has been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Fort Irwin CA, Iraq, Fort Irwin and Afghanistan. During a 9/11 memorial in Iraq, he was featured in this article, which the AP carried from Stars and Stripes:
"During a memorial service to remember the September 11th victims at the Armor Regiment dining facility, what started out as an ordinary reading of the timeline of events on that tragic day suddenly became riveting for those in attendance. That’s because when Captain T of the 490th Battalion, a reserve unit ...attached to the 3rd Brigade, came to the events on the timeline at 8:01 a.m., they became very personal to him.
“8:01 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants leaves Newark, New Jersey for San Francisco.” Cpt. T said reading from the timeline. What he said next is what got everyone’s attention. At the time I had just arrived for work, on the 61st Floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.”
I remember vividly the last time we spoke, we exchanged small talk as we ate lunch at a popular restaurant. I asked if he was sure he wanted to go back into the Army. He said he was, not out of patriotism, but because "them sum bitches killed over 3,000 Americans , they tried to kill more", and then looking like he was going to tear up, "cousin, they tried to kill me, and they want to kill us all."
I went back to work, and on my way home I stopped and bought a bottle of really good American sparkling wine (aka champagne). When I got home, honey asked what we were celebrating, and I said I wanted to keep this until the day they said the main people behind 9/11 were captured or dead. I have never felt that way before, I mean really wanting to hear someone is no more, but I made an exception for bin Laden and Zawahiri, or as honey call em the beard and knot head. I know this means I am not as forgiving as my faith asks me to be. Still, I have the champagne on ice....
Islamophobia - an entirely rational recognition of the threat posed by radical Islam.
Racist/Fascist/Islamophobe/Etc. - anyone who recognises said threat or attempts to resist the global jihad.
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