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November 21, 2008 - 4:35 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Charles
2008-11-22 14:14:57

This guy was so expendable he had to be an ISI finger.

So look for a pattern to the hits. I don’t see it yet. The last guy hit was an AQ Taliban go between.

Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan
22/11/2008 16h20
Rashid Rauf after he was arrested in 2006
©AFP/File – Farooq Naeem

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, after spending almost a year on the run.

Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman’s house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district that is a known stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

Also among the five killed in the early morning incident was Egyptian Abu Zubair al-Misri, another wanted Al-Qaeda operative, a senior Pakistani security official said on condition of anonymity.

A Western diplomatic source said the missile was fired from a jet across the border in Afghanistan.