One of FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' confirmed dead

ECH1969

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Tue Oct-24-06 07:20 PM
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One of FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' confirmed dead

An al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings was killed in April in Pakistan, American officials have confirmed.

Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed in North Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani forces near the border with Afghanistan.

DNA testing confirmed the Pakistani government's claim, U.S. officials said, and Atwah's name was removed from the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists.

Atwah, 42, was born in Egypt. He was indicted in connection with al Qaeda's suicide bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/alqaeda.operative/index.html

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Fovea

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Tue Oct-24-06 07:24 PM
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1. Was he the #2 man also.

Just wondering. Talk about your flat organizational charts...

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IndianaGreen

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Tue Oct-24-06 07:48 PM
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3. Yep, he was another Number Two

Al-Qaeda has a flat organization composed of self-directed teams.

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Fovea

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Wed Oct-25-06 10:00 AM
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8. Say what you will about al qaeda

but with all that number two, they must be getting enough fiber.

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Ignacio Upton

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Tue Oct-24-06 07:33 PM
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2. The mini-October Surprise?

n/t.

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TacticalPeek

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Tue Oct-24-06 08:50 PM
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4. Right on.

Too bad it's six years late, and tens of thousands of lives short.

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Az_lefty

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Tue Oct-24-06 11:10 PM
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5. DNA??? where did they get the sample to compare his DNA too?

:shrug:

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phusion

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Wed Oct-25-06 11:34 AM
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10. From the CIA employee databank n/t

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Vidar

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Tue Oct-24-06 11:48 PM
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6. Oh to see that headline applied to Bush, Cheney or Rove someday!

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rainbow4321

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Wed Oct-25-06 12:31 AM
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7. Maybe this will hold you over til then

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pinerow

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Wed Oct-25-06 11:32 AM
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9. For the record...he was killed in April 2006...and yet it is announced

in October...:wtf:

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