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Saturday February 2, 2008
Yea! Top Qaeda leader killed - bring
home the troops!
A website
that calls itself Site
Intelligence Group
and purports to monitor Islamic websites says that the alleged dead
guy, Abu Laith
al-Libi, joined Al
Qaeda in November 2007. Good thing too, or the US wouldn't be able
to claim it killed a "top" Al Qaeda commander just when it badly needs
to show some iota of success over there.
The
Islamic websites are backing up the US claim. A godsend, or what?
What irks me, though, is what always irks me when "intelligence" quotes
Islamic websites - they never provide the URL, or if they do, the site
is unreachable. The media, regurgitating disinfo fed to them by
"intelligence" are reporting that Ekhlaas.org has a big banner
saying that Al-Libi has been killed, but just try to reach the website.
I've given up trying.
Not only that, but it's impossible to tell who owns the site. The
domain name was
registered in Germany, has a Missouri phone number
(314), and a California address (see below). You tell me
what's going on.
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=Ekhlaas.org
Domain ID:D122543904-LROR
Domain Name:EKHLAAS.ORG Created On:16-May-2006 00:29:10
UTC Last Updated On:12-Aug-2007 15:38:09 UTC Expiration
Date:16-May-2008 00:29:10 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a
joker.com a German
GmbH (R25-LROR) Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT TRANSFER
PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED Registrant ID:CORG-155589
Registrant
Name:Aaron Wilson Registrant Street1:17216 Saticoy Street Van Nuys
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Los Angeles Registrant
State/Province:Ca Registrant Postal
Code:91406 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+01.3142211554
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant *************@yahoo.com
Admin
Name Server:NS1.SRV-OFC.COM Name Server:NS2.SRV-OFC.COM
The
BBC thinks
it's unusual
for Islamic websites to announce deaths reported in this way.
They
think the announcements of Al-Libi's demise could either mean he really
is dead, or else
he is not. How enlightening.
Dead or alive, it's hard to believe Abu Laith al-Libi is not CIA when Yahoo News
reports this about him:
He
was the first spokesman to announce bin Laden had survived the U.S.-led
invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
If so, he was
much too helpful in making the Bin Laden videos seem real.
Bin Laden may
still have been alive after the October assault, but only barely. The Guardian
reported that he had ordered a dialysis machine a year before in an
attempt to survive malfunctioning kidneys, but that couldn't have
helped him much because he ended up in a US hospital in Dubai - where,
even though he was listed as a wanted man, he was not arrested.
Not much point in arresting a dying man, I suppose.
Indeed Bin Laden was
reported quite dead in December 2001.
But about Al-Libi, as always we're left with having to trust unnamed US
intelligence sources who feel they must impress the importance of this
rub-out upon us:
"You're
talking about a very seasoned commander ... the top or one of the
absolute top military commanders that al Qaeda had in the region.
That's what they lost"
See, there's a
top and
an absolute top, and he was one or maybe the other, so he should have
known whether Bin Laden was alive or not, right? Or did he get
all his
information from US intelligence too?
The earliest mention I could find of Al-Libi was in this
Oct. 2006 disinfo item courtesy of ABC
about Al Qaeda "escapees" from a high security US air base prison in
Afghanistan who went on to star in movies playing up the mythical
Zarqawi and generally helping the US prove the reality of Al Qaeda.
Like the BBC regarding Al-Libi, ABC made a pretense of objectivity by
fuzzying the details about the true mission of the "escapees", but
neither news outlet failed to emphasize the major concept - the threat
of Al Qaeda.
Anyway, guess who one of the dubious escapees purportedly went to work
for?
[Abu
Yahya] Al-Libi, for example, was previously thought to be a senior al
Qaeda ideologist but was recently spotted in a video fighting under Abu
Laith al-Libi, a commander of the Arab mujahedeen in southern
Afghanistan.
And that's how a
"top
Al Qaeda" commander is born in the minds of the public. How low an IQ
does a person have to have to swallow this kind of garbage?
yayacanada
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