Airstrike Kills al-Qaeda No. 2: Yemen

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“A senior official at the Yemeni president’s office confirmed the attack, but said DNA tests have yet to establish al-Shihri’s identity.” reports the AP. Of course, as with practically every other Al Qaeda boogie man before him, al-Shihri was reported captured and killed years ago. The wikipedia entry for al-Shihri details the fact that he was first captured at the Pakistan border with Afghanistan, in December 2001, and was one of the first detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, where he was imprisoned for six years. After that time he was then repatriated to Saudi custody, later to be released, whereupon he was said to have traveled to Yemen. Not long after, the Defense Intelligence Agency published a “fact sheet” claiming that al-Shihri had “re-engaged in terrorism”. On December 24, 2009, it was reported that al-Shihri was killed in an air strike in Yemen. Indeed, this was said to be the very same airstrike that reportedly killed the US born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (who was also later reported killed again in another airstrike in 2011). Then on January 19, 2010, Yemen security authorities reported they had captured al-Shihri. One month later, the Yemen Post reported that the release of an audio recording containing al-Shihri’s voice was an indication that he was still alive and operating within Yemen. As with so many before him, al-Shihri’s true identity is mysterious and questionable at best. 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." http://www.prisonplanet.com/another-al-qaeda-boogie-man-brought-back-from-the-dead-and-killed-off-again.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/no-more-pentagon-dinners-al-qaeda-leader-killed-again.html

i guess his little bullet belt across his shoulder didnt do him much good that time...i wish we didnt have to kill people...but i like these drones...they can lay down their arms or hide from the light of day

the picture says it all , hey what is that thing up there?