Al-Qaeda-linked websites have released announcements today that a new video from Abu Yahya al-Libi will be released soon, hinting that his latest “confirmed” death may have been no more successful than the past ones.
“Soon, a video message by sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, may Allah protect him,” the message read. US officials confirmed Libi’s death last week, saying he died in a recent drone strike and labeling him “al-Qaeda’s number two” leader.
Officials were touting Libi’s death as a major blow, much as they were on past occasions when he was “confirmed killed” in drone strikes. The hype surrounding his killing was aimed at placating complaints that the strikes were killing unnamed “suspects” and never anyone of note.
If confirmed this will be at least the third time he survived a drone, putting him near the top of the list of “most killed” militants. Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), remains on the top of this list, having been slain eight separate times.
The announcement of the death of al-Libi was used by the Pentagon to deflect the news of the many civilians who were killed in the supposed attempt to kill him. Corporate media ate it up announcing the success of getting terrorist #2 and almost completely ignored the civilian deaths. Main stream media will likely ignore the news of al-Libi having survived, until they need his death to cover up the next chapter of state sponsored genocide.
"Finally, we come to my number two man. His name? Number Two."
immortal nver dies,they are simply put to sleep till next episode,like superman,batman,spiderman.AlCIAda memebers are are much needed char-actors to keep the CIA showrunning as much above mentioned char-actors are absolute for the Hollywood world.Therfore no worries,
The fact that we’ve killed this man many times before shows that we are never certain of whom we are murdering from way up in the sky. It is quite possible that our intel on the ground may be pointing his personal enemies to us to get rid of them, or else, the Number 2 has 9 lives.
Is it possible that, in a few cases, the guy really was killed but to keep up morale a new guy takes over and carries on with the first guy's name (or "in" his name)? I mean, who'd know out here? Names seem to be pretty fluid in the Islamic/Arab world, lots of people seem to go by nicknames anyway (just as in some Native American cultures people took on the names of teachers, etc.).
You mean our intel is so naive that falls for the trick?