Al Qaeda in Iraq leader killed in Airstrike

[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]whipassmt

George Dubya been whoopin' them terrorists and evil doers.

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[QUOTE="hydralisk86"]Uhhh isn't this from 6 years ago? jetpower3

Several more "leaders" of AQIM have been killed since then. Given the clandestine cellular structure of the "organization", it doesn't help as much as it sounds.

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[QUOTE="whipassmt"] Yes. It happened six years ago today. How'de you know? I remember hearing about this the day after it happened on the car radio on my way to school, the last day of exams for my sophmore year of high school. It was quite exciting really.

whipassmt

Several more "leaders" of AQIM have been killed since then. Given the clandestine cellular structure of the "organization", it doesn't help as much as it sounds.

I was under the understanding that AQIM could also refer to "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia". Either way, my point still stands, even for the North African branch.

I think we need to set up some kind of sting operation to take down droid and praline, whipassmt. Perhaps use Space-whatever as a decoy.dave123321

I think we need to set up some kind of sting operation to take down droid and praline, whipassmt. Perhaps use Storm-marine as a decoy.dave123321

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[QUOTE="jetpower3"]

Several more "leaders" of AQIM have been killed since then. Given the clandestine cellular structure of the "organization", it doesn't help as much as it sounds.

jetpower3

I was under the understanding that AQIM could also refer to "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia". Either way, my point still stands, even for the North African branch.

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[QUOTE="l4dak47"]Wonder what joeratz would think about this? whipassmt

HOLY **** **** can you all just shut up about that?

No really I agree. Like I told somebody before, I think it was the guy with icecream user name and the avatar of some girl with big glasses, " 'tis getting antiquated".

Wonder what joeratz would think about this? l4dak47

[QUOTE="l4dak47"]Wonder what joeratz would think about this? DroidPhysX

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"][QUOTE="l4dak47"]Wonder what joeratz would think about this? Brosephus_Rex

Gg

gl in afterlife

how many leaders do they have? lol.

how many leaders do they have? lol.

VaguelyTagged

Al Qaeda is more like a franchise than a traditional organization. As long as they have blessing from the ideological leaders like Ayman al-Zawahiri or the late Bin Laden, with some basic direction each unit (cell) can act more or less at its own discretion. Some have been known to just act on their own accord anyway or without any directions (a la lone wolf), but take inspiration. Either way, it's a heavily decentralized brand name more than anything else. That's why after so much counterinsurgency, they have been very tenacious in places like Iraq.