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To: JBTFD who wrote (725384)	2/13/2006 10:40:21 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

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