AL-QAEDA has confirmed the death of a senior lieutenant to the movement's chief Osama bin Laden, according to a video posted on the Internet today which also announced a coming "victory" in Iraq. An al-Qaeda leader who gave his name as Abu Yahia al-Libi said in the video that the Kuwaiti-born Omar al-Farouk had The authenticity of the video could not be verified.
| No probs, if they're wrong Farouk can just pop up and say so, with his GPS coordinates ... |
Farouk, who was 35 and also went by the name Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed al-Rashid, had been accused of leading the al-Qaeda Islamist network in Southeast Asia. Genetic tests on his remains proved his identity, the US-led coalition said last month.
| "Dr. Quincy! Dr. Quincy! We got a match! It's definitely Farouk!" "Nice going, Sam, you got all that from an eyebrow!" |
On July 10 last year he managed to escape from a US airbase in Afghanistan. Farouk's escape along with three other suspects from Bagram air base was an embarrassment for US authorities, and the militant appeared on Arabic television in a video to brag about his flight. He apparently made his way to Iraq, his parents' birthplace, where British troops tracked him down.
| And killed him. Thanks Tony. |
The other two militants to have escaped from Bagram are Saudi Arabian Mohammed al-Qahtani and Syrian Abdullah Hashemi.