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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:18 PM
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With Bin Laden out of the way, that leaves two of the world's top terrorists still at large...
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mysuzuki2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:21 PM
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1. Haven't we caught the number 2
in Al Quida about a dozen times?
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:24 PM
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2. No, #2 was always Zawahiri
Edited on Mon May-02-11 10:24 PM by Recursion
"#3" has been used to describe a lot of people, mostly the international operations chiefs (they keep dying because we keep targeting them) and the leaders of regional AQ cells in important areas.
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Nostradammit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 01:07 AM
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9. How come for years we kept hearing how they'd killed the #2 Al Queda guy?
Seriously, it got to be a weekly event a few years ago.

Is Zawahiri a cat or what?
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 06:43 AM
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10. I don't remember seeing anything but #3, or "Al Qaeda in Iraq's #2"
Edited on Tue May-03-11 06:48 AM by Recursion
We had classes about these guys in the late 90s in the military, which made news coverage a lot easier to follow. Even back in '97 or '98 if you said something inappropriate over a telephone the stock response was, "Great, now Osama Bin Ladin knows..."
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Erose999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 07:36 AM
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14. Everytime you get #2, #3 and the rest get a promotion. But really its not like these terrorist

networks are hierarchical organizations that operate by Robert's Rules of Order anyway. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah etc are composed of independent cells that are capable of acting without central leadership.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 01:20 PM
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16. Right, but CEO, EVP, and COO are reasonable analogies...
... for some figures (called #1, #2, and #3). Bin Ladin did "the vision thing", Zawahiri does personnel, and the various #3 did operations.
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 05:29 PM
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18. just like the hell's angles, the banditos, the outlaws
the bezerkers, the latin kings, the gangster disciples, the bloods, the crips well you get the idea....
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:25 PM
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3. George Bush* and Dick Cheney*?
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:29 PM
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4. No brains and no pulse.
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:38 PM
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5. But don't forget We're Looking Forward NOT Backward. REC. nt
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coalition_unwilling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:41 PM
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6. Henry Kissinger is still walking around a free man as we write - n/t
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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:43 PM
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7. knr nt
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:46 PM
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8. Two piles of "Number Two"
:shrug:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 07:02 AM
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 07:12 AM
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12. But please don't forget......



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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 07:13 AM
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13. Good call
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:08 AM
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15. I think I will feel much more happiness when the Big Dick meets his maker
than when Bin Ladin did..Bush* I really don't even care about. Cheney is evil incarnate and the earth will be so much better off when he is gone.
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:41 PM
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21. Yeah me too
Cheney is a world class criminal with more blood on his hands than OBL.

And the problem is...he's OURS! :grr: And we can't send the seals after him.
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 05:27 PM
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17. before the photo popped up i thought to myself W. an cheney
and the bam, they popped up on the photo!
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Cherchez la Femme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 07:09 PM
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19. No no no...
we've got to look forward, not back!

And always whirling, twirling, whirling! :crazy:
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many a good man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:26 PM
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20. 2? There's now only one at-large
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