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POPSWill Al-Qa'eda's American-Born Propaganda Chief Make 9/11 DVD? Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al-Qa'eda's prize American recruit and propaganda chief may have been killed in a CIA-directed airstrike. Evan Kohlmann, an investigator with the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (Nefa) foundation which monitors terrorist groups, said: "Al-Qaeda acknowledges that several of its leaders have been taken out. There aren't that many experienced leaders left in the middle ranks and they are being replaced by younger guys with no credentials but lots of enthusiasm." Watch video: 4:16
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POPSHow al Qaeda Will Perish
Al-Sahab, media arm of al Qaeda urgent call for recruits. "We call on the fathers and mothers not to become a barrier between their children and paradise." No less significant is that the rejection of al Qaeda is not a liberal phenomenon, in the sense that it represents a more tolerant mindset or a better opinion of the U.S. On the contrary, this is a revolt of the elders, whether among the tribal chiefs of Anbar province or Islamist godfathers like Sayyed Imam. They have seen through (or punctured) the al Qaeda mythology of standing for an older, supposedly truer form of Islam. Rather, they have come to know al Qaeda as fundamentally a radical movement -- the antithesis of the traditional social order represented by the local sovereign, the religious establishment, the head of the clan and, not least, the father who expects to know the whereabouts of his children. It would be a delightful irony if militant Islam were ultimately undone by a conservative style reaction.
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POPSOne Of The Top Six Leaders In al-Qaeda's Global Structure Killed There was no official word in Washington on the circumstances of Libi's death, which coincided with intensive contacts between US and Pakistani security officials after a year in which violence escalated sharply in Afghanistan. A Pakistani daily, The News, said the suspected US strike on Monday had targeted Libi and another senior figure, Obaidah al Masri, though residents in the tribal area had said the attack had targeted second or third tier al-Qaeda leaders. Tribesmen had said a deputy of Libi had been staying in the area, which borders Afghanistan, and was among the dead, according to an intelligence official.
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POPSAl Qaeda Leader To Bush: 'We Will Be Waiting For You' Gadahn made reference to November's Annapolis conference of Middle Eastern leaders, saying it was a gathering of Bush's "loyal puppets." He said the United States has been "unmistakably defeated" in Iraq in Afghanistan and has lost the battle for hearts and minds "in spectacular fashion." In his newest dramatic gesture, Gadahn tore up his U.S. passport in protest of the imprisonment of fellow al Qaeda followers Abu Zubaydah, John Walker Lindh and Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. "I don't need it to travel anyway," he said afterwards.
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POPS Intel Window To Jihad Media Is Still Open Private contractors working with the U.S. government to monitor and track al Qaeda Internet communications say their windows into the various operations are not closed, despite two published media reports to the contrary. A front-page article in today's Washington Post featured an interview with Rita Katz, the founder of the SITE Intelligence Group, a small firm that monitors terrorist Web sites and propaganda video releases. Katz claims this leak revealed to al Qaeda how Katz was able to obtain an early copy. "Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless," Katz told the Post. Others, however, say that in order to monitor these communication networks effectively, they are constantly adapting and modifying their techniques.
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POPSAl Q #2 condemns the knighting of Salmon Rushdie Zawahiri praises the bombings of UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon, calls for jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places...the usual boring bunk from the guy cowering in his cave...it's difficult when Iraqis are now joining in the efforts to force Al Qaeda out of their country... the 'infidel' is showing them more kindnesses than the headhackers do, making recruiting more nuts to kill themselves for allah, more difficult.
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