WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that al Qaeda's top bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, believed to be the mastermind behind the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner in 2009, has been killed.Now is the time we Jawas dance!Trump said in a White House statement that al-Asiri was killed in 2017 in a United States counter-terrorism operation in Yemen. U.S. officials said last year they were confident al-Asiri had been killed but others had said at the time that the evidence was not conclusive. Washington had long sought al-Asiri, a Saudi-born militant with al Qaeda's Yemen branch who was known for his ability to create hard-to-detect bombs, including some implanted in suicide bombers.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Imperial Good News: Ibrahim al-Asiri is Dead Jim!
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Muslim Brotherhood Sad: A Feel Good Story
A broken Muslim Brotherhood struggles for relevance...That's so awesome! Lets party!Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/e1448ada-e39b-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59 It means the secretive Brotherhood, which once laid claim to being the Arab world’s most influential non-state movement as it developed an international network and inspired groups such as Hamas, the Palestinian militant movement, has been reduced to a divided, weak organisation. Thousands of its members languish in jails in Egypt. The state has seized businesses and assets associated with the group, and its organisational structures have been shattered. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Brotherhood has, throughout its existence, faced hostility from autocrats fearing that its organisational strength and appeal among conservative Muslims made it the gravest threat to their rule. ...“If you sit with any Muslim Brotherhood [member] now they are trying to find a way out; millions of questions but no answers about the theory of political Islam itself,”
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