Ilyas Kashmiri's apparent death is another blow to al-Qaida just over a month after bin Laden was killed by American commandos in a northwest Pakistani army town. Described by U.S. officials as al-Qaida's military operations chief in Pakistan, the 47-year-old Pakistani was one of five most-wanted militant leaders in the country, accused of a string of bloody attacks in South Asia, including the 2008 Mumbai massacre, as well as aiding plots in the West. Washington had offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to his location.

They are saying he was tapped as the successor to OBL. They also think this is a blow to al-Qaida for some reason.

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...a fax from the militant group he was heading — Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami's feared "313 Brigade" — confirmed Kashmiri was "martyred" in the strike at 11:15 p.m. Friday in South Waziristan tribal region. It was sent to journalists in Peshawar.

"God willing, America, which is the 'pharaoh' of this, will soon see a revenge attack, and our real target is America," it said. The statement was handwritten written on a white page bearing name of the group, which has not previously communicated with the media.

So, if you believe the current administration, we killed OBL a few weeks ago, and now we've killed his number two, who became number one, but now is...number none? I get them confuse. Anyway, I guess now we should beware of attacks from al-Qaida operatives.

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That's funny, as I thought that China decreed that the US shall not strike inside Pakistan.

"BOONDOCK WHERE ARE YOU"??

Just the next step in the plan?

The U.S. has found more 'top operatives' in the past month than they have in the past 10 years. Conveniently close to elections, and conveniently when Shiite anger at America, EU, and Israel is growing exponentially.

bull hockey!!!

it took obama 6 months to decide to send more troops to afghanistan and yet he made the supposed call to kill bin laden on a 50/50 shot.

so my opinion bin laden aint dead and the so called intelligence from his raid is suspect at best

creating more boobgiemen.

pakistan is not americas buddy the billions of dollars is their best friend

and the billions china gives them.

from the x-files " the truth is out there"

all anyone has to do is open their eyes

Originally posted by BlackStar99
The U.S. has found more 'top operatives' in the past month than they have in the past 10 years.

I find it extremely convenient that these "top operatives" are going down, just as Duke Nukem arrives back on the scene!

Yup, thats gotta be it.

Duke Nukem is back!

I don't necessarily believe this myself, since I believe OBL has been dead for years. But we've killed "Osama's number 2" so many times over the years, now we can start killing more number 1s! Killing brown people is something that the current administration has gotten pretty good at.

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Heres the thing, it really does nothing, other then a short morale loss to al-qaida. Within the next 1-2 weeks there'll be another person to replace his spot.

Good, more terrorists dead.