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Offline Concerned

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Trump’s team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden
« on: August 30, 2018, 02:22:06 pm »
OpEd written by former acting Director of the CIA, Michael Morell:

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Amid all the controversies and scandals from Washington dominating our news cycle, a major counterterrorism success by the United States last week did not get the attention it deserved: Government officials are confident that Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, al-Qaeda’s chief bomb maker, was killed during a U.S. drone strike late last year.

If the reports are true — and caution is in order since Asiri has been reported killed before, only to show up very much alive — he would be the most significant international terrorist removed from the battlefield since Osama bin Laden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-terrorists-is-now-dead-few-seemed-to-notice/2018/08/29/78677972-aabd-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html?utm_term=.0de126e923ec
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Re: Trump’s team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2018, 02:24:18 pm »
They arrested Andrew McCabe?
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Re: Trump’s team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2018, 02:29:45 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on August 30, 2018, 02:24:18 pm
They arrested Andrew McCabe?

The piece is referring to Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, al-Qaeda’s chief bomb maker.  Asiri had a long history of building sophisticated explosive devices including inserting one up the rectim of his brother, putting them in printer cartridges, in underwear, in electronic devices, and making a nonmetallic suicide vest.
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Re: Trump’s team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2018, 02:35:41 pm »
Quote from: Concerned on August 30, 2018, 02:29:45 pm
The piece is referring to Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, al-Qaeda’s chief bomb maker.  Asiri had a long history of building sophisticated explosive devices including inserting one up the rectim of his brother, putting them in printer cartridges, in underwear, in electronic devices, and making a nonmetallic suicide vest.

He stole that idea from the movie Man on Fire.   :laugh:

It's good news that this bomb-maker is dead.  There probably a dozen more out there right now of his caliber.
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Re: Trump’s team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2018, 03:04:25 pm »
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,328524.0.html

August 18, 2018, 10:46:47 AM »

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Master bomb maker for Al-Qaida killed in U.S. airstrike, officials say
Maggie Michael and Ahmed al-Haj

Al-Qaida's chief bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, who was behind the 2009 Christmas Day plot to down an airliner over Detroit and other foiled aviation-related terror attacks, was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Yemeni officials and a tribal leader said Friday.

The killing of al-Asiri deals a heavy blow to the group's capabilities in striking western targets and piles pressure on the group that already lost some of its top cadres over the past years in similar drone strikes.

A Yemeni security official said that al-Asiri is dead; a tribal leader and an al-Qaida-linked source also said that he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the eastern Yemeni governorate of Marib.

The tribal leader said that al-Asiri was struck, along with two or four of his associates, as he stood beside his car. He added that al-Asiri's wife, who hails from the well-known al-Awaleq tribe in the southern governorate of Shabwa, was briefly held months ago by the UAE-backed forces and later released.

Read more at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-al-qaida-bomb-masker-killed-20180818-story.html

Did not have the other details but posted a few weeks ago.
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