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Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a video published Tuesday by al-Qaida's propaganda wing.
Senior al-Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, who was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone strike last week in Pakistan, appeared in a video published Tuesday by the terrorist group’s propaganda wing.
NBC News terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann, whose company Flashpoint Global Partners spotted the video titled "The Tragedy of Syria: Between the Crimes of the Nusayris and the Scheming of the West," said the video made no reference to the reported drone strike early on June 4, and was very likely recorded prior to the attack.
Though al-Qaida’s As-Sahab propaganda wing and jihadist Web forums hosting the video continue to describe al-Libi with honorific titles suggesting he is alive, the video itself did not indicate whether he was living or dead.
According to a Reuters translation of the video, al-Libi called on Islamist fighters outside Syria to join rebels in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad.
"We call on our brothers in Iraq, Jordan and Turkey to go to help their brothers,'' he said. "If your revolution was to be peaceful, God would have chosen it that way, but now the illusion of peaceful means after these great sacrifices ... would show weakness."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said a week ago that al-Libi had been killed in North Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s northwest tribal area, but did not confirm that he died in a U.S. drone attack – a sensitive matter with Pakistani officials.
“I can’t get into details about how his death was brought about, but I can tell you that he served as al-Qaida’s general manger, responsible for overseeing the group’s day-to-day operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan and he managed the outreach to al-Qaida’s regional affiliates,” Carney said.
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Previously, Pakistani security sources said al-Libi had died in a pre-dawn attack on June 4, the last in a series of three U.S. drone attacks over the weekend.
If al-Libi’s death is confirmed, he would be the fifth senior al-Qaida leader killed since U.S. Navy SEALs killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on May1, 2011, in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Dead... Next...
Yep.
What took so long for US to report the news that al-Libi is alive and kicking? Why didn't Dubai /Al Jazeera tell Obama or did they? This is old news- on June 11,2012 4 am (EDT) http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-53705-Al-Qaeda-websites-claim-al-Libi-alive. Dubai: 2 websites linked with AQ announced Sunday (June 10,2012) they'll air new video featuring jihadist deputy leader ABU YAHYA AL-LIBI (WH -Obama claimed killed)on messages posted on ANSAR and ALFIDAA websites- al-Libi remains alive.
mimi you just wish that this guy is still alive and kicking just so you can blame Obama once more. This is why I will not vote for a conservative - they are putting partisanship before the country.
So you would vote for the wrong person simply because you have a bias against a hand full of people...You are insane...by the way, is that not partisan?
Mark, that is exactly the thing -I will not vote for the wrong person simply by avoiding voting for teabaggers. Anyone who is putting country before their party deserves my vote. Here is one simple example - any job bills from congress in last 4 years?
Well if he is alive we'll just have to kill him all over again...problem solved!!
I believe that's his double...and the real al-libi is dead because we were told so! I can't believe that Obama or the White House would ever tell a lie! Right?
I thought al-Libi is the name of that fundraising group for Obama!
Here is a list that have been submitted by the house...Can't say much for the Senate...
HR910
HR1633
HR10
HR3010
HR527
HR3012
HR3094
HR2930
HR2940
HR1965
HR1070
HR1904
HR2273
HR2681
HR2250
HR2401
HR2587
The man is dead the video would have made fun of the fact he had been reported dead before wake up.
Dead Smead... I agree with schoolyard. Poke your head out of the sand and a drone could be watching... What gets under my skin is the official is quoted in the article "... Cant discuss the details." Where was this secrecy before. It seemed that we not only heard about the drone killings but what turban he was wearing and brand of his undies. Announcing "we gotem!" I can handle but the "gory details compromising future ops. The Obama administration would be better served playing it close to the vest.
Marky...you could have saved space and done only 4 of them because the republicon bills are all the same.
1.Kill Social Security.
2Kill Medicare.
3.Kill the Post Office
4 Kill the economy as vowed to do on Feb 2009. while giving more tax breaks to the 1% rich.
Republican economy drones in your neighborhood now!
agree he is dead-next= Grover Norquist by accidental bombing of K street...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr910rfs/pdf/BILLS-112hr910rfs.pdf HR 910....a jobs bill? This eliminates the greenhouse gases restrictions?
I guess by job creation you mean that when people start DYING off due to our corporations given carte blanche in emitting gases, those jobs are now available.
What a sham.
Republicans using drones is ok. Right.
Ali libi? Isn't that what Obama is looking for? Wait, no, that's an alibi!!
ALI LIBI = Al-Qaida Liberal , now wouldn't it be ironic if he did surface alive, making all the info leaks a waste of time and when they go to 1600 pennsylvania ave they can catch the real criminals !!!!
Well ... republicans need a few terrorists alive to go after ..... if by some magic republicans win WH ....
Otherwise republicans run the risk of working on real issues like jobs and economy and healthcare and energy independence and eduction. Ain't bombing too easy!!! Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.
I looked into those "30 jobs bills," total nonsense.
Just more tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and "drill baby, drill". What a joke.
it's screw workers and screw the environment. There's nothing in those bills that would create better jobs for any meaningful number of Americans.
Since you seem to be Boehners messenger, maybe you could tell him that passing legislation that goes nowhere or no one else is willing to pass is the same thing as doing nothing?
Obama/Biden....2012!!!!
Oh ho! So the rebels are with al Quada?
I believe he's dead. the film he's calling for the backing of the rebels against Assad. He is not gloating about failure in our face? Sure seams to be prerecorded. This could maybe change my opinion about Assad. I don't like the way he does business at all, but maybe he does know what he's doing. It's his Turff.
They are all evil over there, but which one of the evil doers can we live with the easiest?
Moshuluu- You are not a fan of Reaganomics are you, and why is that ?
Was it the 20 million new jobs that he added in his presidency?
Or that inflation dropped from 13.5 in 1980 to 4.5 in 1988?
Maybe it was that unemployment dropped from 7.6 to 5.5?
I got it, it was the people making wages between 20,000 and 50,000 went up by 27%...no that's not it.
This is it, you don't like that Reaganomics raised real GDP by 26%!!!!
Boy you are right, we should stick with the Obamanomics!!!
This is a lie.
Mark l
HR910 - Energy tax prevention Act
HR1633 - Farm Dust Prevention Act
HR10 - Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law)
HR3010 -Regulatory Accountability Act (To reform the process by which Federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations and guidance documents.)
I don't even want to waste my time typing this... These bills are clownish
You fail to understand one simple thing: give corporations all the power they want, give them all tax cuts and they will NOT hire any more people for a sheer pleasure of hiring. They will only hire if THERE IS DEMAND ON THE MARKET. Demand comes from CONSUMER. More money middle/lower income people have = MORE DEMAND for consumer goods. GM is not going to build any cars if people are not able to buy them. Ever noticed how retail stores always HIRE before Christmas? They are hiring because around that time consumer demand goes UP, they are not hiring to create jobs, they are hiring to fulfill that demand. Same applies for any season! Retailers will never hire people to provide more jobs, farmers will not hire to provide more jobs, or any business no mater how big and successful will not hire people just to watch how they can pay useless crowd. They will hire ONLY if this crowd is needed and able to earn more money.
Now let's say we remove all pollution regulations. This means that we will be in contact with dangerous substances everywhere. Water, air, food, goods we buy will impact our health so we will be spending our last dollar on health care therefore unable to spend it on consumer goods further dropping demand on the market. There is a great example for you: CHINA. Two out of ten most polluted cities in the world are in China. Ever heard that average life spawn for humans there is around 45? This is one of many things conservatives agree with communists: environment is not important at all, pollute all you want as long as you can make money easy for now. There are few lists of most polluted cities, however they all have something in common - average life spawn is way below when you compare it with cities that are least polluted. Is that so hard to understand that you do need to take care of environment?
Mark
Since you know so much about reagonomics - then you should also know that deficits under reagon went through the roof. He is the one who started printing presses of the fed that gave rise to all these successive bubbles.
Richie .....YOU just lied..everyone of my statements is a fact. Ryan plan kills Soc sec and Medicare. Repubs put in a bill dec 2006 to force Post office to fund out retirement in advance 75 years which drains the funds collected. NO BUSINESS FUNDS OUT 75 years, repubs brag they want to privatize it.
The whole world knows about the 14- 15 repub politicians, Ryan, Cantor, DeMint, etc, and Newt ageeing to vote against every bill that would help President Obama turn economy around. Richard Draper new book do search.......JUST LIKE TRAITORS. Just like Osama Bin Laden planned in writing to take the economy down to destroy the country. Repubs use Bin Laden plan, destroy the economy.
Reagan had to raise taxes 11 times to stop the bleeding. Bush Sr said no new taxes then spent like drunken son, "No New taxes" oops....no second term because he lied and he spent through the roof.!
Al-Libi - "This is it!" - a Tribute!
Talking about killing the economy! what about in 2008 Chuck Schumer Killing Indy Mack bank and the rest of the economy.
Starsailing...
#^*()_-+O<>...
Never mind, there aren't enough characters that look the same sideways or upright to have a conversation with you and your cat 5 lean.
Talk about derailing a thread. There is always some idiots who can make anything about Republicans vs Democrats. What the hell does the economy in the US have to do with Al-Qaida leaders?
I found it interesting that he was urging the Syrians, and its neighbors, to overthrow Assad. I wonder why.
So...Who told us that he was dead? After bin laden, why would we believe Pakistani officials when it comes to confirming kills? Hell, why would we believe anyone in Pakistan after bin laden? Even if it was say, a double agent who reported it, he could've been lying.
As the internet saying goes, pics or it didn't happen.
That all being said, he seems to be our next bin laden at the moment. It'll go around for the next two years or so that he's dead until actual proof comes out saying he's alive. i.e. a video mentioning a major event after his death.
mark -- there was not one jobs bill in your entire list. You and your Republican friends LIED.
Prove it. Show where in that plan does Ryan state the complete 100% repeal of Social Security or the complete 100% repeal of Medicare. You will not be able to do that, because it is not there. What it does attempt to do is fix the problems with the plan. For example,
So again, you lie.
Hello folks,
Al Qaeda was created and funded by the CIA during the
Soviet-Afghan war in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s. The funding of
these militants did not begin after the Soviet invasion, but actually several
years before the invasion. US intervention in Afghanistan by training and
arming Afghanistan’s Mujahidin, along with Osama Bin Laden’s Arab fighters.
US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski met with
Osama Bin Laden on many occasions then leading the CIA’s Arab legionaries in
Afghanistan. Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda would later spin off into regional terrorist
organizations, covertly armed, trained, and protected by the CIA,
including LIFG in Libya, MEK in Iraq and Iran, and Baluchi terrorists in
Pakistan.
So now the current adminstration is propagating the same B.S. the last administration was to perpetuate the "war on terror". They are claiming to kill the second in charge every other week (in the last administration it was killing the third in line every other week).
Um, no.
This is how conspiracy theories get started ... I swear, you guys give our government way too much credit.
While you have some facts peppered in there, Al Qaeda and the Mujahidin that we supported during the Soviet Invasion are very different things.
We didn't "create" Al Qaeda. Did we drop the ball after the Soviets pulled out? You bet your ass.
But Al Qaeda is simply a militant wing of Islam that would have metastasized regardless of what U.S. policy was. These sicko's are political ideologues who wish to spread Islam throughout the world. Regardless of what you hear, their cause has nothing to do with oppressed Islamic brothers and sisters and everything to do with spreading Islamic fascism. They klll more of their fellow Muslims everyday than any foreign country or government in the world.
go stick your head up your ass farther
will you
F'n moron...where did you read that? The Al-Qeada Times? AQ was not formed until after the US put American boots on Saudi and Kuwait soil. Those events infuriated OBL and thus AQ came to being.
I have a crowbar you can use to unwedge your head from your ass.
You can quit making up this lie now. We have more reality to deal with than a Republican Propergandist like you. You make up good lies, who trained you, Bush? The people know what is properganda is, they learned the hard way. So take your BS, Reteric and Lies and take a long walk off a short pier. If you don't want to do that you can take a flying F*** on a rolling donut.
Actually oilman your wrong. But I also doubt CIA involvement since Bin Laden had his own money. It is true they were armed by America though During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. CIA Operation Cyclone. Soviet Invasion was from December 1979 – February 1989 Al queda was formed in the middle of that from former native mujahideen and then expanded into a international organization.
America put boots in Kuwait soil in 1990
Kill them all so badly Allah can't sort out the pieces.
Everytime they put out a new video, they put out more clues on how to get them.
Shhhhhh, don't tell them our secret.
"Manger"? Like what Jesus was supposedly born in? Really, I'm not usually the type to knit-pick about spelling, but seriously...?
Most likely outsourced editor!
And that's why spell-check will never replace a good proofreading, folks.
Yes but proof reders have to get paid robots don't
jjfriaz banned for calling for genocide.
Take it somewhere else.
That is one ugly M.F. that I truly hope is dead. Ugly, ugly and really ugly.
I'm sure the powers that be will try to "keep him alive" as long as the propaganda works. Problem is, they will run out of new tapes shortly and have to admit he was really killed.
How many of the dead we have claimed have resurfaced?
They made sure OBL would not come up anywhere, so he was "buried at sea". I wish he could have had a trial with a lie detector test to boot. What "secrets" may he have spilled ? It will be a mystery for decades but not for ever. The truth has a way to surface no matter the test of time. What was he actually responsible for and what surprises came up in the mix of the confusion ?
They all look alike.
So has this administration started counting their chickens before the egg hatched?
well, since the evidence is that this video was done before the death was claimed, it doesn't appear so. ("said the video made no reference to the reported drone strike early on June 4, and was very likely recorded prior to the attack."
of course, mistakes are always possible. Very few deaths are 100% comfirmable for terrorists killed in foreign counties like pakistan...
There always has to be one dosen't there.....They have claimed upwards of over 20 kills and not one has shown up to prove them wrong yet. Only part of this story that might make you wonder is the part where it says Pakistan confermed the hit.
I notice how FOX news is always running captions about terrorists and suicide bombings on the screen. After a decade of wars, the American people no longer care. These wars have been nothing but a very deadly and costly excursion, yet the Repubs want us to believe that the war on terrorism is more important than jobs and health care. Sure it is, for the filthy rich contractors who have profited very nicely from these wars.
I put terrorism and national security right up there with the economy and health care.
The republicans are playing a game of deception. I've get more intent on what I had my eye when someone tries to distract me. THey can't create any more jobs than what's coming right now due to the situstion in EU. They can say what they want but Obama has been dealing with this and Mitt hasn't got a clue what's going on. Who could have seen this coming 4 years ago? My attention is focused on this issue right now. This serious and needs a serious person in office. Obama has shown me he can do the right thing I have to stick with the man who is stuck with this problem. Now if only we could get a functioning congress.
I don't know who you jokers are that put out that rediculus proposal on imigration but if I learn who the Clown was that initiated that crap I am going to call for your dismissal. no matter what it takes your A** is mine. The law won't let me take you out back the wood shed and give you the butt whippin you Daddy should have. I can how ever get you leagally, Enjoy that fat salary that you are not earning it'll be short lived.
'da Dead guy made the video last MONTH
hell, how can you tell, they all look alike? I think that guy might have sold me cigarettes at the gas station last week
May a flee infested camel piss in his hot tub!
FLEA
Pretty soon they will have to start showing reruns because that is all they will have lol
What's next a holographic video like Tupac?
"Abu Alec, Welcome to a glorious new world where you will lead our forces to victory" SWISSSH- BOOM.
"Damn, it happened again!! Well pick another quickly !!!" Abu Bob, welcome to a glor" SWISSSH-BOOM.
"Oh COME ON!!!!"
Like the comedy guy with the skeleton terrorist...
oops.. Are we sure Bin Laden is dead?
The proof this goon is dead is that in this video he DID NOT MENTION the airstrike he supposedly survived. Had he survived, that would be all he would have wanted to talk about. Obviously taped prior to the strike, so he's out of the lineup. Where's Al Zawahiri? That coward has been keeping a low profile for way too long. It's time to play 'whack a mole' on him when he finally pops up again.
Also if you remeber the story also told of who his replacement was there was no denial from their camp and there were prayers beoing said for hi trip to the brothel in the sky they believe in
Just another Obama blunder...Ops.... Missed... Just one more leak that helps the pres but is not true... Wow..
OOPS....Sragun...just your blunder.......because you can't even spell OOPS!
It doesn't really matter if he's dead or not. There are thousands of other loonies ready and willing to take his place.
They all look the same to me. That could be the guy who makes crappy coffee at my 7/11 for all I can tell. I'm gonna have to watch him closer in the morning.
Oops...wrong guy....wrong body....an honest mistake.
all the cancer needs to be removed. errant, rebel cells need excision or radiation for the body to heal. it is a health issue to remove rebellion out of the land. necessary because "... their word will eat as doth a canker..."
God is good.
Killing is not funny in my book. Sometimes it has to happen but very few of us enjoy it. Sooner or later the recruits will dry up and maybe they can draft another approach. 911 was a political disaster for them and it has been all downhill from that moment on. Here is a ragtag group of individuals in a few countries not being able to do what they were formed for. Their objective was to kick out the royal family in Saudia Arabia. Bin Laden had a woody against them and he used the excuse that they were not fundamental enough for his liking. Notice the last few letters in funamental
this guy's dead, if he's is not dead, he's not the brightest crayon in the box, if someone has you targeted for assassination and thinks they have killed you, why would you let them know they did not.
Has anyone else picked up on the point in the article that indicated that Al Qaida wants to overturn the Assad regime in Syria? So do we. So does the rest of the civilized world. That worries me when our objectives line up with Al Qaida's.