Pakistan: Mastermind Behind UK Transatlantic Bomb Plot Killed During US Airstrike in Waziristan.....
Awesome.....
Rashid Rauf, 27, who grew up in Birmingham, was killed along with at least three other militants in the attack on the house of a local tribesman in the North Waziristan area,
A US drone targeted the home in the village of Alikhel, part of a district known as a stronghold for al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
"The transatlantic bombing plot alleged mastermind Rashid Rauf was killed along with an Egyptian al-Qaeda operative in the US missile strike in North Waziristan," a senior Pakistani security official said.
Rauf, who has been on the run after escaping from a Pakistani jail nearly a year ago, was said to have played a key role in a liquid bomb plot allegedly targeting transatlantic airliners in 2006.
Rauf, a British national who used to live in Birmingham, escaped from Pakistani authorities after appearing before a judge in an Islamabad court in December last year. At the time, he could have faced extradition to Britain within weeks.
After the escape, Khalid Pervez, a city police official, said that Rauf managed to open his handcuffs and evade police guards taking him back to Adiala prison in the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
After the escape, 12 policemen were questioned and two had been accused of assisting the escape or negligence. Despite a huge manhunt, he was never recaptured.
Rauf was arrested in Pakistan in August 2006, after a tip-off from British intelligence, over alleged attempts to blow up 10 transatlantic jets.
ZIP
Why are they all so ass ugly?
Posted by: Battlecat | November 22, 2008 at 10:41 AM
@BC, goats and donkeys have poor eyesight.
Posted by: Atom&Yves | November 22, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Amazing, we could find him but the Crapis couldnt
Posted by: Elric66 | November 22, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Man, that's one ugly mthrfkr - good ridance
Posted by: Pam, New York | November 22, 2008 at 01:08 PM
"Amazing, we could find him but the Crapis couldnt
Posted by: Elric66 "
They knew who was there, that is why they so bitterly complained about the US strikes, even before it was announced who was killed.....yep...
Posted by: pulsar182 | November 22, 2008 at 01:11 PM
These air strikes will end once the Anointed One takes office.
Just wait until his gang of fools take charge of foreign affairs.
Posted by: Hening | November 22, 2008 at 02:02 PM
And that guy was once running around the UK recruiting suicide bombers. Amazing.
Posted by: JDAM | November 22, 2008 at 07:32 PM
Koranist heaven must be the ugliest place in the universe. I've yet to see a jihadist that looked even remotely decent.
Posted by: Poopyhead | November 22, 2008 at 08:50 PM