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Exactly how many al-Qaeda chiefs are there?

September 28, 2010 2 comments

Seems they outnumber New York bedbugs…

From the BBC:

US missile strike ‘kills al-Qaeda chief’ in Pakistan

A senior al-Qaeda leader has been killed in a suspected US drone missile strike in Pakistan, officials say.

Pakistani security officials said Egyptian national Sheikh Fateh was killed on Saturday in North Waziristan.

The officials said Sheikh Fateh took over as al-Qaeda’s chief of operations for Afghanistan and Pakistan in May after al-Qaeda’s number three leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid was killed.

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The bloody execution of Furkan Dogan

September 28, 2010 Leave a comment

From Truthout.org:

The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.

The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face.

The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.”  The report describes the forensic evidence as showing that “the trajectory of the wound, from bottom to top, together with a vital abrasion to the left shoulder that could be consistent with the bullet exit point, is compatible with the shot being received while he was lying on the ground on his back.”

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