Osama Dead!!!

[IAN 2411]

Egyptian named new Al-Qaeda leader

Report AFP – Tue, May 17, 2011


Al-Qaeda has chosen a former Egyptian Special Forces officer as interim leader of the violent extremist group in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this month, CNN reported Tuesday.

Saif al-Adel, a top Al-Qaeda strategist and senior military leader, has been tapped as "caretaker" chief of the group, CNN reported, citing former Libyan militant Noman Benotman, who has renounced Al-Qaeda's ideology.

Pakistan's The News newspaper corroborated the claim, citing unnamed sources in an article datelined Rawalpindi, a city home to the military headquarters of the Pakistani Armed Forces near the capital Islamabad.

The decision to chose Adel, also known as Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, came as militants grew increasingly restive over the lack of a formal successor to bin Laden, who was killed in a dramatic US commando raid deep in Pakistan on May 2, Benotman told CNN.

Bin Laden's long-time deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian, is considered to be his presumed successor.

Benotman said the appointment of Adel on a temporary basis may be a way for the group to gauge reaction to having someone outside the Muslim holy region of the Arabian Peninsula at the helm.

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Well i think that sums the death of OBL up.....now i suppose its more of the same.

Be well IAN 2411

[Thorne]

Well i think that sums the death of OBL up.....now i suppose its more of the same.

I wonder. Been thinking off and on about this, and if I remember correctly bin Laden had connections with the Saudi royal family, plus a boatload of money. Can things continue as before without those resources? Or will al Quida become the headless serpent thrashing in the dust as it's blood seeps away? Or will this appointment serve to split the group even more, forcing them to waste resources with infighting rather than acts of terror?

[IAN 2411]

I wonder. Been thinking off and on about this, and if I remember correctly bin Laden had connections with the Saudi royal family, plus a boatload of money. Can things continue as before without those resources? Or will al Quida become the headless serpent thrashing in the dust as it's blood seeps away? Or will this appointment serve to split the group even more, forcing them to waste resources with infighting rather than acts of terror?

I don’t think that Al-qaeda will be short of cash, there will be a banker backing them somewhere. All the drugs coming out of Afghanistan are not making the locals rich so someone other than they are reaping the rewards. Just like the IRA had Irish Americans, Irish Australians, and others from the fallen empire funding the cause through donations, so too will the Al-qeada. Terrorists and murderers deal in cash and the only time they look in a bank is on the point of robbery.

There are a hell of a lot of Al-qaeda sympathisers in the world, and if they only gave a $/£ each once a month. Then it is an awful large amount of honest cash going to a dishonest cause.

I do however like your thinking, “It would be nice it were fact and not wishful thinking.”

Be well IAN 2411