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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (17231)2/13/2006 10:33:38 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Some Failure

And Another Thing . . .

It often takes weeks, if not months, for the truth to catch up with news reporting these days.

When a drone first wiped out a meeting of al-Qaeda-types in Pakistan, some reported and commented that it was a failure which would only provoke further hostility toward the United States. The focus was on the collateral deaths and the subsequent protests (which, as it turned out, were limited).

Of course, virtually anything we do to defend ourselves will provoke hostility from others — not just tribesmen protecting al-Qaeda leaders, but our liberal meda.

In any event, as more is learned about this drone attack, and despite the fact that al-Zawahri changed his plans and didn't show at a meeting he had planned to attend, it's clear it was quite successful. As Pakistan's president Musharraf reveals today:
    "A U.S. missile strike on a Pakistani village last month 
    killed a relative of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader and a terror 
    suspect wanted by America, Pakistan's leader said 
    Saturday, breaking weeks of silence about the identities 
    of the men. ...
    "Five foreigners were killed in the U.S. attack in 
    Bajur," Musharraf told tribal elders in the city of 
    Charsada. "One of them was a close relative of Ayman al-
    Zawahri and the other man was wanted by the U.S. and had 
    a $5 million reward on his head."
More here. breakingnews.nypost.com

levin.nationalreview.com
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