Reports: Senior al Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in Pakistan
A senior al-Qaida official and potential successor to the group’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed Friday morning in a Predator drone strike, according to reports on jihadi web forums and U.S. officials.
Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman Al-Hussainan, aka Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, was killed in Pakistan while eating breakfast, according to the accounts. The 46-year-old cleric was seen as part of the “very top tier” of al-Qaida’s remaining leaders in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, according to one expert on the terror group.
The news was first announced on an al-Qaida web forum early Friday. “We celebrate to you the news of the martyrdom of the working scholar Shaykh Khalid al-Hussainan (Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti) while eating his Suhoor (dawn time) meal, and we ask Allah to accept him in paradise,” a post said.
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Being Zawahiri’s Frank Nitti certainly seems to be a very deadly office to hold.
xkaydet65 on December 7, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Another one? That makes like 27 by now since 2008. Good thing the war is over.
Rambotito on December 7, 2012 at 11:24 PM
Ayman-al-goatfkrZawahiri—-”Obama can’t we all just get along—I thought we were friends?”
arnold ziffel on December 7, 2012 at 11:36 PM
I thought Al Qaeda was done already.
Mark1971 on December 7, 2012 at 11:40 PM
Well, bye.
rukiddingme on December 7, 2012 at 11:53 PM
“Bad dates.”
trigon on December 8, 2012 at 12:20 AM
Mornin’, Sheikh. How ’bout a hot cup of Hellfire.
Kenosha Kid on December 8, 2012 at 12:24 AM
Can’t a guy just eat his waffles?
pedestrian on December 8, 2012 at 2:11 AM
i thought AQ was decimated several months ago…heard it in a speech thang…
ted c on December 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM
Yup. Thirteen year old boys, don’t you know!
honsy on December 8, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Oh, crap. I thought I had an original thought. That’s what I get for thinking.
davidk on December 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM