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Half of al-Qaeda leaders have been eliminated: Bush
May 18 2003
Almost half of al-Qaeda's leadership has been captured or killed, US President George W Bush said yesterday, after a week that began with bombings in Saudi Arabia and ended with bomb attacks in Morocco.
"The enemies of freedom are not idle, and neither are we," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
[And sometimes its hard to tell the difference!]
The pre-recorded broadcast came the morning after a string of bomb attacks in the Moroccan city of Casablanca killed at least 39 people.
[Not to mention the bombings in Saudi Arabia, Isreal, and Pakistan.]
"From Pakistan to the Philippines, to the Horn of Africa, we are hunting down al-Qaeda killers," Bush said.
"So far, nearly one-half of al-Qaeda's senior operatives have been captured or killed," he said, pledging to "remain on the hunt until they are all brought to justice."
[Unless we can't find them, and then we'll go after somebody else or start a war as a good distraction.]
"With the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have removed allies of al-Qaeda, cut off sources of terrorist funding, and made certain that no terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein's regime," Bush said.
[I like how Bush throws around the term "liberation". Bin Laden likes to use that term as well.]
"These two battles were important victories in the larger war on terror. Yet the terrorist attacks this week in Saudi Arabia, which killed innocent civilians from more than half a dozen countries, including our own, provide a stark reminder that the war on terror continues," he said.
The triple suicide bombing in Riyadh, blamed on Saudi-born extremist Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, left at least 25 dead, including eight US citizens, along with nine bombers, and some 194 wounded, according to a Saudi interior ministry toll.