.[UPDATE: Zawahiri Killed?] U.S. Missile Hits Pakistani Target
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I'm not nearly as optimistic as AJ Strata about what's going on in Pakistan, but I am happy to report that we've taken out another Taliban/al Qaeda target inside the territory of our "ally" in the region. Whoever designed the Predator drone should be given a medal and a big hefty bonus.
UPDATE: I've gotten a few memos from some insiders that this could be a big fish. How big?
Check out the comments section for some of the public speculation as to why this may be Zawahiri. The gist of which is a) contrary to Pakistani sources, this area is a hotbed of AQ activity b) Zawahiri is said to have married a wife from the Mohmand tribe in order to get their protection c) hence the rumors that Zawahiri is in the area and the speculation that the target was Zawahiri.
And, as long as we're talking about Zawahiri, I wasn't around when his newest audio message was released. I hope someone around here covered it in my absence and duly noted that it was not released with English subtitles, as was the custom when American Adam Gadahn was running al Qaeda's propaganda arm.
Which only leads me to further muse that Gadahn is probably dead. If not, how about some proof of life?
UPDATE 6/11/2008: Just to clarify, these are rumors based on speculation. Nothing more. On a reliability scale of 1-10 I'd give it a hope fueled two.
In fact, there are now conflicting reports as to whether there was a Predator strike at all. We'll just have to wait and see.
Anyway, welcome Hugh Hewitt & LGF readers. I didn't mean to get your hopes too high. We tend to publish a lot of rumors such as this based on the idea that it's fun to imagine Zawahiri and other SOBs like him dead, and that occasionally they turn out to be true."
The Jawa Report
H/T RantBurg
I'm not nearly as optimistic as AJ Strata about what's going on in Pakistan, but I am happy to report that we've taken out another Taliban/al Qaeda target inside the territory of our "ally" in the region. Whoever designed the Predator drone should be given a medal and a big hefty bonus.
UPDATE: I've gotten a few memos from some insiders that this could be a big fish. How big?
Check out the comments section for some of the public speculation as to why this may be Zawahiri. The gist of which is a) contrary to Pakistani sources, this area is a hotbed of AQ activity b) Zawahiri is said to have married a wife from the Mohmand tribe in order to get their protection c) hence the rumors that Zawahiri is in the area and the speculation that the target was Zawahiri.
And, as long as we're talking about Zawahiri, I wasn't around when his newest audio message was released. I hope someone around here covered it in my absence and duly noted that it was not released with English subtitles, as was the custom when American Adam Gadahn was running al Qaeda's propaganda arm.
Which only leads me to further muse that Gadahn is probably dead. If not, how about some proof of life?
UPDATE 6/11/2008: Just to clarify, these are rumors based on speculation. Nothing more. On a reliability scale of 1-10 I'd give it a hope fueled two.
In fact, there are now conflicting reports as to whether there was a Predator strike at all. We'll just have to wait and see.
Anyway, welcome Hugh Hewitt & LGF readers. I didn't mean to get your hopes too high. We tend to publish a lot of rumors such as this based on the idea that it's fun to imagine Zawahiri and other SOBs like him dead, and that occasionally they turn out to be true."
The Jawa Report
H/T RantBurg
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