Back to the Front
This was some good news from yesterday:
British troops in Iraq have shot dead an al-Qaida leader who escaped from a maximum security prison in Afghanistan last year, officials said today.
Omar al-Farouq was killed yesterday after he opened fire on British soldiers who were raiding his home in the southern city of Basra, Major Charlie Burbridge said.
Maj Burbridge refused to confirm that the dead man was definitely the same person who allegedly led al-Qaida’s operations in south-east Asia, saying only he was understood to be a leading terrorist.
However, a police officer in Basra said al-Farouq was the same escaped prisoner, adding that he had entered Iraq three months ago under the name Mahmoud Ahmed and was known to be a bomb-making expert.
Some 250 British troops from the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment took part in the raid on al-Farouq’s home. “We had information that a terrorist of considerable significance was hiding in Basra. As a result of that information we conducted an operation in an attempt to arrest him,” Maj Burbridge said.
“During the attempted arrest, Omar Farouq was killed, which is regrettable because we wanted to arrest him.”
Now, the heart-warming part of the story of this Muslim mass murderer is that he was only back in Iraq to visit his sick mother, who lives in Basra. Apparently, al-Farouq was willing to risk all to come back into Shiite southern Iraq after escaping his American captors at Bagram —just to see mom.
It’s touching. And probably total bullshit.
So here’s the punchline: a mass-murdering Sunni fundamentalist who was running al-Qaeda’s operations in Southeast Asia before he was captured and turned over to American troops in Afghanistan was shot to death by British troops in the Shiite city of Basra.
Basra is in Iraq, see.
I think people who insist that the War for Iraq is unrelated to the larger War against Islamofascism are ignorant assholes who don’t care about America’s national security or about administering justice to our enemies.
