Saturday - June 11, 2011

Oh, But This One Is OK For Us To See?

Somali officials confirmed today that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaeda’s leader in East Africa and a senior Shabaab commander, was killed at a Somali military checkpoint in Mogadishu earlier this week. Fazul is one of the most wanted terrorists in East Africa for his role in attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as his role within Shabaab.

Somalia’s minister of information confirmed Fazul’s death, according to The Associated Press. “We’ve compared the pictures of the body to his old pictures,” he said. “They are the same. It is confirmed. He is the man and he is dead. The man who died is Fazul Abdullah.”

A US intelligence official who tracks al Qaeda in East Africa told The Long War Journal that Fazul was indeed killed.

“We’re certain we got him,” the intelligence official told The Long War Journal.

More details and a picture of the bloody corpse over at Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal.

NAIROBI, Kenya – The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who didn’t immediately realize they had killed the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said Saturday.

The death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed — a man who topped the FBI’s most wanted list for nearly 13 years — is the third major strike in six weeks against the worldwide terror group that was headed by Osama bin Laden until his death last month.

Mohammed had a $5 million bounty on his head for allegedly planning the Aug. 7, 1998, embassy bombings. The blasts killed 224 people in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania combined. Most of the dead were Kenyans. Twelve Americans also died.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — who was on a visit to Tanzania on Saturday as Somali officials confirmed Mohammed’s death — called the killing a “significant blow to al-Qaida, its extremist allies, and its operations in East Africa.

“It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and elsewhere — Tanzanians, Kenyans, Somalis, and our own embassy personnel,” Clinton said.

Mohammed was killed Tuesday but was carrying a South African passport, so Somali officials didn’t immediately realize who he was. The body was even buried. Officials later exhumed it.

Wait, won’t there be Worldwide Muslim Outrage™ over that grave desecration? No? Nobody gives a poop if it isn’t Americans doing it? Huh?

Mohammed’s death is the third major blow against al-Qaida in the last six weeks. Navy SEALs killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on May 2 at his home in Pakistan. Just a month later, Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaida leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumored to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden, was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan.

The strike against Kashmiri was not the direct result of intelligence material seized from the bin Laden compound, U.S. and Pakistan officials say. If the account of the killing at the security checkpoint killing is confirmed, it would appear Mohammed’s death is also not the result of new intelligence.

Sooner or later this AQ hydra is going to run out of heads. Let’s hope the military can keep this streak going. One or two top leaders a month and pretty soon there won’t be anyone left at the top at all.

Speaking of dead terrorists ... remember what Odumbo said back at the end of March about why he was bombing Libya?

Of course, there is no question that Libya -– and the world –- would be better off with Qaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

The task that I assigned our forces -– to protect the Libyan people from immediate danger, and to establish a no-fly zone -– carries with it a U.N. mandate and international support. It’s also what the Libyan opposition asked us to do. If we tried to overthrow Qaddafi by force, our coalition would splinter.

Nobody believed that BS then either. Now NATO is stating the obvious: yes, they’re gunning for Qaddafi, and have been doing so all along. No kidding.

A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday…

The resolution said forces could use “all necessary measures” to protect civilians.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday it is time to start planning for what to do in Libya after Gadhafi’s departure “because Gadhafi’s reign of terror is coming to an end.”

Read more at Hot Air. Why do our leaders feel they have to lie to us? If Obama had come right out on Day One and said he wanted to aid the Libyan revolutionaries and was going to use US forces to off old Uncle Mohmar, half the country would have been on his side. Of course, that would be the half that’s dead set against him in everything else, but he would have had their approval for at least a little while. And it would be a “gutsy” move. Instead we get this piddleshit dicking about.

Come on Obama, ramp it up. Get an actual declaration of war going. Then send in the B-52s and level Tripoli. Twice. As if we care about collateral damage. Not. Just make sure you install a compliant satrapy Government In A Box when the old government falls. And then spend the next 5 years teaching Libyans how to be happy Westerners and not backwards jihadis. Because we have plenty more bombs. It’s your big chance to start a modernization trend across Africa, peaceful democracy and moderate modernized Islam. Not willing to do that? Unable to modernize Islam? Then stop your ‘illegal war’ and pull our forces out of NATO’s mess and let the raggies bleed each other white. We don’t care. Just stop lying to us.

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