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Title: **Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Killed in Pakistan, U.S. Official Says** Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on August 27, 2011, 03:06:49 PM http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/world/asia/28qaeda.html?_r=1&hp
Quote WASHINGTON — A drone operated by the C.I.A. killed Al Qaeda’s second-ranking operative in the mountains of Pakistan this month, an American official said Saturday, further weakening a terrorism network shaken by the killing of Osama bin Laden this year. The official said that a drone strike on Aug. 22 killed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, a Libyan who in the past year had taken over as Al Qaeda’s top operational planner. Mr. Rahman was in frequent contact with Bin Laden in the months before the terrorist leader was killed in May by a Navy Seals team, intelligence officials have said. Title: Re: **Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Killed in Pakistan, U.S. Official Says** Post by: ssmith general on August 27, 2011, 03:32:00 PM (http://www.gokarters.com/vbforum/images/smilies/Woot_Emoticon.gif)
Title: Re: **Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Killed in Pakistan, U.S. Official Says** Post by: 2Stater on August 27, 2011, 03:37:07 PM :popcorn2:
Title: Re: **Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Killed in Pakistan, U.S. Official Says** Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on August 27, 2011, 03:44:45 PM (http://www.gokarters.com/vbforum/images/smilies/Woot_Emoticon.gif) I had to look woot up. "Woot, I pawnzed this dude's boxen!' "I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!" Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t". "w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement. |