Key Al Qaeda Figure Accidentally Blows Himself Up, U.S. Officials Say

[Dos Equis]

 

Key Al Qaeda Figure Accidentally Blows Himself Up, U.S. Officials Say
By Mike Emanuel & Justin Fishel & Mike Levine  - FOXNews.com
 
A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News.

The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was "messing with a bomb" when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News' sources insist the U.S. had nothing to do with his death.

Al-Qahtani was "a vibrant guy linked to ongoing operations planning, and his death will have an impact," one official told Fox News.

An Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula newsletter was the first to announce his death a week after the United States put terror sanctions on him. The newsletter did not say when it happened but said Al-Qahtani died in Yemen's Abyan province in the south of the country.

The State Department recently described al-Qahtani as "a liaison between Al Qaeda cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia."  It said he manages Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's operations in Yemen and receives financial support from abroad to launch attacks in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is recognized for its connection to the failed 2009 Christmas Day airline attack in Detroit. Since then, Yemen's government has increased airstrikes on the group's members within its own country using intelligence support from the United States.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/21/key-al-qaeda-figure-accidentally-blows-officials-say/?test=latestnews

[Dos Equis]

I couldn't find the Family Guy clip where they were trying to train the suicide bomber, but did find this one:

[Skip8282]

Another great day for the world!

[Danny]

Me likey!

[240 is Back]

Contessa Brewer is sad on this day

[ToxicAvenger]

this pic ws captioned "disposable bomb disposal unit"

[24KT]

When I was in the 8th grade, one of my classmates did that.
I'd known him since grade 4. The kid was messing with pipe bombs in his garage.

[tonymctones]

When I was in the 8th grade, one of my classmates did that.
I'd known him since grade 4. The kid was messing with pipe bombs in his garage.

what the shit was he doing with pipe bombs in 8th grade?

[24KT]

what the shit was he doing with pipe bombs in 8th grade?

That's what I wanted to know. We were shocked. I couldn't believe he could even get his hands on that stuff, ...let alone not even have the common sense to know enough not to even try to mess with it.

He also seemed the least likely to be messing with stuff like that too. He was 13 and in the 8th grade, but he was the size of a 8 yr old. He was the cutest little thing too. Not a sexy cute, ...but a moppet cute. Picture little Ricky Schroeder at the age of 7 or 8. All wholesome cuteness, bright blond curls and freckles. After the explosion, all the surgeries and skin grafts he endured, when he finally came back to school, ...he wasn't as cute anymore. Facial burns have a tendency to rob you of your cute factor. 

  I guess when you're a midget with an inferiority complex, you find some way to feel strong & manly. Some guys take up bodybuilding... others build pipe bombs in their garage, ...and there are guys like 33386 who are capable of both.