Score One For The Good Guys
As Christopher Hitchens might say, we’ve helped one more would-be martyr reach his goal:
A high-ranking member of the al-Qaida terrorist network was killed in an airstrike on a remote village in western Pakistan, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News on Thursday.
Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah was among as many as 14 suspected militants who were killed in the attack in the North Waziristan tribal region village of Anghar Kalai, near the Afghan border, the officials told NBC News.
Unfortunately, there were other casualties, as well, but that’s the dirty business we’re in, and it’s important to remember that ultimately, al-Qaida is responsible, because of their policy of deliberate mass murder and terror.
[...] I have been saying for weeks, since Bush’s visit to Pakistan, that the place to watch this year is the Waziristan province in Pakistan. Mark Coffey caught this article from Christopher Hitchens (since I was NOT keeping my Waziristan the last day or so) highlighting some recent Al Qaeda Butt Whooping going on there: [...]