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...many in this grinding global conflict with the jihadists, was short-lived. NATO's press release went out of its way to say that Dadullah "will most certainly be replaced in time." It didn't take that long: four days after the strike, the Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, announced that Dadullah would be succeeded by his brother. Dadullah was uniquely abhorrent, a one-legged mastermind of suicide bombings and beheadings who had earned the nickname Afghanistan's Zarqawi. But his death won't likely damage the Taliban any more than Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's liquidation - or, in recent...
...Taliban spokesman on Monday hailed Dadullah as a martyr, announcing that his brother had been appointed to take his place. "This is not going to slow down the Taliban jihad," spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said by telephone reading a statement attributed to the movement's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. That remains to be proved in the field, but the Iraq experience has conditioned Western officials to lower expectations arising from the elimination of even key insurgent leaders...
...Omar Khyam, the ringleader of the plot, planned with his accomplices to detonate fertilizer bombs in the London area. In an intensive surveillance operation, code-named Crevice, investigators listened to 3,500 hours of their targets chatting, watched them as they contacted sympathizers and sometimes even photographed their meetings...
Last April I attended the Save Darfur rally in D.C. and was excited to hear you speak. However, I was troubled by your statement that we shouldn't support a regime change in Sudan. How do envision ending the violence in Sudan without president President Omar al-Bashir losing power? -Carly Pildis in BostonI don't have a road map, but one of the things I think is very important is prayer, awareness and being a part of foundations that promote it. They talk about regime change, but they also talk about oil and s---. They say it is regime...
...terrorist - only to be greeted with skepticism. The earlier claim that tribal fighters had killed al-Qaeda's Iraq military leader, Abu Ayub al-Masri, has yet to be verified. But Thursday's announcement by Iraq's Interior Ministry of the killing of al-Qaeda's political/spiritual leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was accompanied by claims that the terrorist's body was in the government's possession. But U.S. military spokesman Maj.-Gen. William Caldwell has brushed off the claim that al-Baghdadi had been killed by U.S. and Iraqi troops. He was also unable to confirm the death...