Saturday, January 14, 2006
Another swing and a miss
Al-Qaida's second-in-command was the target of a U.S. airstrike near the Afghan border but he was not at the site of the attack, two senior Pakistani officials said Saturday. At least 17 people were killed.
Rats. He's a sneaky bastard, but we'll get him eventually.
5 Comments:
By 
Lanky_Bastard, at
Sat Jan 14, 02:47:00 PM:
I thought that Iraqi guy was 2nd in command.
By 
, at
Sat Jan 14, 10:11:00 PM:
".... At least 17 people were killed. "
...and the target wasnt even there. This is a tragedy, and certainly a blow to whatever hope we ahve of "winning the hearts and minds"
And all you have to say is "Rats"?
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Jan 14, 11:41:00 PM:
If the 17 people who were killed were noncombatants, that would be unfortunate. If the targeted house was just the wrong house, then they might have been. If Zawahiri was known to have used the house, they may well have been combatants. In any case, sorry I wasn't weepy enough for you.
In any case, Zawahiri is waging a declared war against the United States and not wearing a uniform. He bears the culpability for at least reasonable casualties inflicted on the population in which he hides.
Finally, whoever said that the war was about "winning hearts and minds?" I have written a lot about what I think it takes to win this war, and it is not that.
By Gordon Smith, at
Sun Jan 15, 11:00:00 AM:
I don't think that blaming him for the deaths caused directly by U.S. military operations is going to fly anywhere beyond the wingosphere.
The whole GWOT ought to have been treated as an international criminal matter from the get-go. Elevating the murderous A.Q. leaders to status of warrior was the biggest mistake made after 9/11. They're criminals. Murdering, crazed criminals that ought to be hunted first by international justice entities and backed up by various militaries. The War in Iraq was such an immense blunder because (aside from the lies and fear-mongering in the U.S.) it lent more legitimacy to a movement that had no firm political agenda.
And now to hear the war drums for Iran being beaten across the corporate media and the wingosphere... When will we learn that destabilizing entire regions in the name of warmfuzzyfreedom is bad policy?
By , at
Sun Jan 22, 08:44:00 PM:
ok...
i first posted, thinking we had bombed in error...and all you could say was Rats... then i thought i was indeed wrong, that terrorists were involved, and you were ..more correct i guess it the way to say it.. than i was.. that the bad guys were there.. and really.. we may weep over children killed, but its obvious they dont.. so..
And now i read this from the Pakistani Prime Minister..
"Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday ridiculed as "bizarre" a U.S. report that senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA attack on a home along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
"There is no evidence, as of half an hour ago, that there were any other people there," Aziz said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
"The area does see movement of people from across the border. But we have not found one body or one shred of evidence that these people were there."
Somebody is lying here... did we get some of them or what..
