{"id":164,"date":"2006-10-05T05:13:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T09:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-10-27T07:38:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T11:38:11","slug":"one-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"One at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters has the news<\/a> that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al-Qaeda un Iraq, has been killed by US Forces. This is the same guy that put out an audio message<\/a> last week for<\/p>\n

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…experts in the fields of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chemistry, physics, electronics, media and all other sciences \u00e2\u20ac\u201d especially nuclear scientists and explosives experts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to join the terror group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holy war against the West.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and, in the same message<\/p>\n

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…called on insurgents in Iraq to capture Westerners so they could be traded for the imprisoned Egyptian [blind] sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have to admit that that one worried me — not for what it said on the surface, but a perhaps irrational linking of the two: might it be a call to kidnap American scientists and nuclear experts? Too Tom Clancy<\/a>, perhaps… but it was one of the first possibilities that crossed by mind when I heard the report. That thought hits too close to home.
\nCentCom<\/a> is reporting<\/a> that<\/p>\n

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Coalition forces detained a former driver and personal assistant of Abu Ayyub al-Masri along with 31 others during a series of 11 raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq activities in the Baghdad area Sept. 28.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Both of these appear to be good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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