Number Three With A Bullet
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Sunday April 6, 2008
U.S. intelligence officials are looking past the current al Qaeda dynamic duo of Usama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri and are labeling a young, charismatic Libyan as the man to watch for taking the Islamic terrorist organization into the future.
Thirty-something year-old Abu Yahya al-Libi, who escaped from a prison cell at Bagram Air Force base and into jihadist folklore just three short years ago, has risen to become what some analysts are calling bin Laden’s “heir apparent” and may be poised at assuming the role of mastermind if he continues his charmed existence.
Former CIA official are crediting al-Libi with giving the organization something that it was lacking — religious scholarship — and thereby increasing its credibility among some muslims; a distinct irony for an organization whose origins stem from a series of fatwas, or religious edics, that were authored by bin Laden against the United States in the late 1990s. Bin Laden based his reasons for declaring a holy war against the U.S. due to the American military’s continued presence in the land of the two holies — namely Saudi Arabia.
Time will only tell if al-Libi lives up to his billing but one thing is certain; U.S. Central Command undoubtedly has a cruise missile attached to a Predator UAV in the skies above Afghanistan with his name on it.
Is North African militant new face of al-Qaida? — MSNBC.com
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!