[lit-ideas] Re: case in point
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:45:14 -0600
Yay us!!! So far we've killed about 200,000 Iraqis. At a trillion dollars
that's ony 5 million dollars per Iraqi -- a bargain in anybody's war. You go,
guys!
Mike Geary
Memphis
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From: Brian
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Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: case in point
Eric, you beat me to it in posting this. From Captain's Quarters:
The US airstrikes have scored a success against one of their intended
targets. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who planned the attacks on American embassies
in Tanzania and Kenya that killed over 200 people (mostly Africans), died in
the US attack on Islamists fleeing Somalia in the wake of their collapse
against the Ethiopians:
The suspected al-Qaeda militant who planned the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
in east Africa was killed in an American airstrike in Somalia, an official said
Wednesday.
"I have received a report from the American side chronicling the targets and
list of damage," Abdirizak Hassan, the Somali president's chief of staff, told
The Associated Press. "One of the items they were claiming was that Fazul
Abdullah Mohammed is dead." ...
Mohammed allegedly planned the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania that killed 225 people.
He is also suspected of planning the car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya
and the near simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002.
Ten Kenyans and three Israelis were killed in the blast at the hotel, 12 miles
north of Mombasa. The missiles missed the airliner.
Mohammed is thought to have been the main target of an American helicopter
attack Monday afternoon on Badmadow island off southern Somalia.
Apparently, the American intelligence had this target identified rather
clearly. The attacks have continued now into their third day as the US wants to
take advantage of the rout of Islamists from Mogadishu and Kismayo. We are
making a point about the patience and tenacity of American counterterrorist
efforts, one that even al-Qaeda won't be able to ignore.
We've taken down one mastermind responsible for attacks on America.
Hopefully, more will be forthcoming.
Brian
Birmingham
On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
al-Qaida Chief in Somalia May Be Dead
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