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To: koan who wrote (192482)	6/25/2012 2:29:44 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543642

You seem pretty confused and misinformed. We aren't killing poor Arabs with the drones, we're killing AQ operatives. Like the 9/11 folks. The only poor Arabs killed are collateral damage, like that happens in a war. Like this guy: nytimes.com pagewanted=all Abu Yahya al-Libi was a Qaeda commander who escaped American custody in 2005 and became the group’s deputy leader after Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011. In June 2012, American officials said that Mr. Libi had been killed in a targeted drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal belt. Officials had initially appeared to be wary because, as with some other top militants sheltering in the region, Mr. Libi has been falsely reported dead before — in December 2009 after a drone strike in South Waziristan. Mr. Libi and three other Qaeda militants escaped from the American detention center at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, in July 2005 after picking a lock and dodging guards. His notoriety swelled after he appeared in a 54-minute video a year later, describing his capture by Pakistani forces in 2002 and his escape from one of the world’s largest military prisons. He went on to become a rising star in Qaeda’s media campaign, making many videos and appearing more frequently than even Ayman al-Zawahri, then Al Qaeda’s deputy leader.