Gunmen beat bin Laden ally in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan â?? Gunmen on Wednesday attacked and critically injured a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden whom U.S. authorities have linked to an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in California.

Fazlur Rehman Khalil, a signatory to the 1998 bin Laden declaration of war on the United States and its allies that launched al-Qaida, was severely beaten by eight armed men, supporters said.

The attackers dragged Khalil and his driver from a mosque in Tarnol, around 3 miles northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, as they attended evening prayers, said his spokesman, Sultan Zia.

Khalil is a former leader of the al-Qaida-linked militant group Harkat ul-Mujahedin, which he founded as the Harkat ul-Ansar to fight Soviet forces in neighboring Afghanistan in the 1980s. The United States labeled Khalil's group a terrorist organization in 1994, but it was renamed and continued its anti-Western jihad, or holy war, under the name Jamiat ul-Ansar.

Khalil's attackers held him for five hours and beat him with rifle butts before dumping him in front of a mosque on Islamabad's outskirts, supporters said. He was reported in critical condition in a hospital Wednesday night in Rawalpindi, a suburb of the capital.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...samapal30.html

Guess some of the folk in the region are getting sick of the trouble makers! Just a matter of time!:thumbsup:


This was in the article also.....must have been kept pretty low profile when it happened. The dems are bitchin' about how Bin Laden should have been caught by now...hell, they've been tryin' for a while themselves I guess.

Bin Laden's Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and two other Egyptian and Pakistani extremists also signed the "Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders."

That same year, then-President Clinton ordered an attack with 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles on targets including Khalil's camps near the eastern Afghan town of Khost. It was a failed attempt to kill bin Laden after al-Qaida's attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed at least 224 people.

Intelligence assessments concluded that the missile strikes missed bin Laden by a few hours, but Khalil claimed several of his fighters were killed in the airstrikes.

In testimony to the 9/11 commission in 2004, Clinton's national-security adviser, Sandy Berger, said an undisclosed number of agents from the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate also died in the strikes. The powerful ISI long was associated with Khalil and other militant groups.


Don't let this throw ya's though,

"Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders."

I'm sure it's just a misprint or misunderstanding!:rolleyes:










Oh well, back to supporting Bush!:D :thumbsup: :stoned: