No More Pentagon Dinners: Al Qaeda Leader Killed Again

Robodoon · Sep 30, 2011

No More Pentagon Dinners: Al Qaeda Leader Killed… Again

Anwar al-Awlaki dead for second time in two years

According to a “senior US administration official”, Al Qaeda Boogie Man Anwar al-Awlaki has been reported killed in an air strike in Yemen, which is the exact same way he died in 2009.

The Yemeni defense ministry confirmed the claim, stating that the same counterterrorism unit that killed Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen to kill al-Awlaki.

“Cynics will point to the strategic timing” notes TIME, adding “just a week after embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from four months of medial treatment in Saudi Arabia following an attack on the presidential compound.”

Moi? Cynical? Never.

There are a couple of issues I would like to address, however.

Why should we believe the American born cleric al-Awlaki, who has been linked with everything from the aborted Christmas Day underwear bombing to the ink toner plane bomb plot, is dead this time around?

Like many supposed terrorist leaders before him, Awlaki has previously been reported killed.

On December 24, 2009 several news outlets reported that Awlaki was believed to have been killed in a joint U.S-Yemeni pre-dawn air strike by Yemeni Air Force fighter jets on a meeting of 30 or so senior al-Qaeda leaders at a hideout in Rafd, a remote mountain valley in eastern Shabwa.

The Reuters news agency spoke to an unnamed Yemeni official at the time who said: “Anwar al Awlaki is suspected to be dead (in the air raid).”

Awlaki’s death was also reported by Fox News and Al Jazeera.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0rkjUhWbiA"]American Al Qaeda CIA Video Cleric, Anwar Al Awlaki Killed in US Airstrike in Yemen Dec 2009 - YouTube[/ame]

On December 28 The Washington Post reported that U.S. and Yemeni officials had confirmed that al-Awlaki was at the al-Qaeda meeting.

Then on December 29 it was reported by Newsweek that a Yemeni journalist called Abdul Elah Hider al-Shaya had been in contact with Awlaki after the air raid, and was claiming that he was still alive.

The report stated:

There is no independent way to confirm Shaya’s account and U.S. intelligence officials are now ducking the question of whether they believe Awlaki is dead or alive. “His status is not entirely clear,” a U.S. intelligence official says.”

Between then and now, the so called “key leader” of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has popped up in several slick videos and was said to have produced al Qaeda’s signature English-language internet magazine.

As we have previously reported, every significant Al Qaeda leader appears to have been killed or reported killed several times, indicating that these people are simply names,interchangeable at the whim of the Pentagon, US Intelligence and their corporate media mouthpieces.

The American-born cleric is perhaps the most complex of these characters.

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Comment: I guess Americans are just a bunch of chumps. What are we idiots? Believing everything the military industrial complex says? The MIC is part of the AAE, and the AAE includes the royal and money powers that our Founding Fathers fought at our birth. They got us and are using us...but the smiling talking heads on Corporate news (which is part of the MIC) won't tell you that, they have a job to do, just doing their jobs

Now who's joining the military to fight for the global bankers wars and push for a New World Order, opps, I mean who's going to be joining to fight for freedom. Silly me.

America a nation of dupes.

waltky · Oct 1, 2011

Granny says, "Dat's right - a Hellfire missile uppa wazoo'll shut `em up...

No 'clear successors' to al-Awlaki, analysts say
30 Sept.`11 WASHINGTON Anwar al-Awlaki's value to al-Qaeda and the risk he posed to the United States was rooted less in the operational capability of the terror network and more in his role as a charismatic spokesman for a movement that was desperately trying to connect with disaffected Muslims in the West, terrorism analysts say.

With U.S. intelligence reports indicating that al-Qaeda's ability to mount a major strike on U.S. soil has diminished, al-Awlaki's role as al-Qaeda's chief propagandist and recruiter raised his importance within an organization that was looking to recruit Muslims in the United States and Europe to take up their cause. But now it's unclear there's anyone within al-Qaeda who can take his place. "There aren't any clear successors on the bench," said Fred Burton, an analyst at the private intelligence firm STRATFOR.

Awlaki spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Yemen, but he was born in New Mexico and educated at Colorado State University. He not only spoke flawless English, but he also peppered his anti-American rhetoric on the Internet with pop culture references. During his years in the United States, he led mosques in Denver, San Diego and Northern Virginia, where he was regarded for both his piety and eloquence. "Someone like Anwar al-Awlaki, who had a duality of cultural understanding, was the perfect weapon, the perfect tool to help perpetuate the al-Qaeda ideology in Western audiences," said Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, a homeland security expert at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

Al-Awlaki, in a sense, perpetuated Osama bin Laden's vision for the al-Qaeda movement to become self-sustaining. He was creating franchises for the terror organization, helping al-Qaeda reach potential followers into the United States and the United Kingdom and also southeast Asian countries such as Singapore with large English-speaking Muslim populations, Nelson said. The radical U.S. cleric's skills were so "unique," said Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen analyst at Princeton University, that his death, along with that of chief propaganda minister Samir Khan another U.S. citizen are losses that may be extremely difficult to replace within the weakened terror organization.

Johnsen said al-Awlaki, whose YouTube sermons attracted a dedicated global following, and Khan, the editor of al-Qaeda's slick English-language Internet magazine known as Inspire, were enormously successful in encouraging so-called lone-wolf terrorists, who U.S. authorities said represented the greatest threat to the homeland. Al-Awlaki alone is credited with inspiring a string of recent attacks and attempted assaults on the U.S., including the 2009 failed Christmas Day bombing of an airliner over Detroit, the 2010 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and last year's foiled plot to bomb cargo planes with explosives concealed in printer cartridges. "I don't know if there is anybody capable of filling those roles," said terror analyst Evan Kohlmann. "Inspire magazine may be dead."

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Obama: Terrorists will find 'no safe haven anywhere'
Sep 30, 2011 - President Obama called Anwar al-Awlaki's death in Yemen today "a major blow to al- Qaeda's most active operational affiliate."

"Make no mistake, this is further proof that al-Qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world," Obama said. Obama spoke at a Pentagon ceremony to honor retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mike Mullen and incoming chief Martin Dempsey. Al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, helped plot the attempted bombing of a U.S airliner on Christmas Day 2009, "and he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda," Obama said.

The president did not discuss details of the operation that killed al-Awlaki earlier today in Yemen, but did call it "a tribute to our intelligence community" and "another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates." Yemeni security officials also received presidential praise for helping bring down al-Awlaki.

"Awlaki and his organization have been directly responsible for the deaths of many Yemeni citizens," Obama said."His hateful ideology and targeting of innocent civilians has been rejected by the vast majority of Muslims and people of all faiths, and he has met his demise because the government and the people of Yemen have joined the international community in a common effort against al-Qaeda."

The fight against terrorism is not over, Obama added: "We will be deliberate, we will be relentless, we will be resolute in our commitment to destroy terrorist networks that aim to kill Americans, and to build a world in which people everywhere can live in greater peace, prosperity and security."

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