They got Al-Zawahiri?!

[MadMarchHare]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/13/alqaeda.strike/index.html

Man, I farging hope so.  He scares me so much more than Bin Laden.  Don't kill the bank, kill the brain.

[rjs246]

Word.

[QB Eagles]

We'll see in due time. I hope so, because I both dislike terrorists and have him in my death pool. Al Qaeda as it once existed has been destroyed for a while, and I somewhat doubt that getting he and bin Laden would have a whole lot more than morale value at this point, but I suppose morale victories are important in stemming the other side's recruitment and institutional support for this particular jihad -- a tactic both sides recognize.

[Father Demon]

I hope this ass-farger is dead.  And blown to bits.  Dead and blown to bits is good.

[MadMarchHare]

He was always the brains.  He was responsible for planning the assassination of Anwar Sadat.  He was the mastermind behind the bombings in Africa, followed by his greatest achievement, 9/11.  I hope the mutherfarger suffered tremendously before he died, and burns in the deepest pit of hell.

And if you think Al Qaeda has been neutralized, you're delusional.

[Butchers Bill]

Bush did it!

Oh wait...we only use that for bad things, sorry.   

[QB Eagles]

He was always the brains.  He was responsible for planning the assassination of Anwar Sadat.  He was the mastermind behind the bombings in Africa, followed by his greatest achievement, 9/11.  I hope the mutherfarger suffered tremendously before he died, and burns in the deepest pit of hell.

I'd agree that he's the brains, and more than anyone is responsible for al-Qaeda becoming the skilled operational organization that it did in the 90's. He's also bin Laden's physician. 9/11, however, was primarily the achievement of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who planned it with the blessings of bin Laden and Zawahiri. I'm guessing that fatbody hasn't had a great last three years.

And if you think Al Qaeda has been neutralized, you're delusional.

The top-down organization that existed prior to 9/11 has been destroyed, with most of its leaders, money, and facilities taken out of commission. It has been replaced by a decentralized terror network in which local cells have the freedom to operate very independently, with little if any direction from bin Laden and his senior lieutenants, who are relegated to a more inspirational role. Obviously this is far from the same thing as al-Qaeda being neutralized, but it continues as a very loose-knit operation that requires very little direction from above. It's still one of the most potent terrorist organizations in the world, and unquestionably the organizaiton that poses the biggest security threat to the United States.

[DutchBird]

I hope they got him... as it seems they got a whole bunch of people, including women and children in any case...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060114...al_qaida_attack

If this report is true, then at the least the attack was not as much precision as it is often made out to be.

[Rome]

He wasn't there.

That's okay.  They killed at least 17 innocent people (including children, of course), so there's that at least.

[MadMarchHare]

My guess is it was a precise attack - against the wrong target.  Foiled by bad intel again.  YEAH!

[Diomedes]

The United States cares only about it's own innocent humans.  Innocent Iraqi deaths are meaningless to the American terrorists.

[rjs246]

Uh dude, it was Afghanistani lives this time. Duh.

[ice grillin you]

i honestly could care less about killing those people...just know tho...shtein like this has been happening over there for the last 25 years...and remember the people killed in this missle attack have families friends and countrymen just as dick and jane on WTC floor 97 had...that way when attacks on the us are perpetrated people wont be like "OMG I CANT BELIEVE THEY DID THAT TO US"...

9-11 doesnt even compare to the amount of innocents that weve killed in the middle east in the iraqi invasion alone...now dont get it twisted...whoever did 9-11 should be tortured and raped for a lifetime...but its not we kill terrorists and they kill civilians as the politival leadrship and media over here would like you to believe...the bottom line is we kill them they kill us whoever it may be...until everyone is gone...kinda like human monopoly

[Diomedes]

Uh dude, it was Afghanistani lives this time. Duh.

Same difference.  America is every bit the terrorist villain that it claims to combat.

[Rome]

Pakistani, not Afghani...

Meh - what's the difference, right?  Kill all those fargers who wear "turbans!"