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To: jlallen who wrote (4037)	4/20/2006 1:48:00 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 14758

"Mr. Secretary, isn't killing this al-Qaeda just a way of distracting the American people from the shocking and unexpected news that Wes Clark thinks you should resign?" THE GOOD GUYS WHACK ANOTHER AL-QAEDA LEADER; NOBODY NOTICES TKS jim geraghty reporting Abdul Rahman's dead. No, not the good one who had to be smugged out of Afghanistan. The bad one, who was a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure, also known as Abu Mohsin Musa, a.k.a. Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah. He had a $5 million bounty on his head, and was one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists. A little background: <<< Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was indicted in the Southern District of New York, for his alleged involvement in the bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998. Pakistani military reportedly nailed him. >>> Why is the Bush administration losing the message game? Well, for starters, almost nobody has blogged about this, and almost nobody has covered this. (I realize that there are several spellings of his name and several aliases, but even searching for variations, there just hasn't been much talk about this guy.) Does the President have to put this guy's head on a stick on the White House lawn to get people to notice our victories in the war on terror? Or would Rummy have to unveil the corpse at his next press conference to get anybody to notice this? "See this? This is a dead al-Qaeda. This is our job in this building, and we're doing a pretty darn good job at it." "Mr. Secretary, isn't killing this al-Qaeda just a way of distracting the American people from the shocking and unexpected news that Wes Clark thinks you should resign?" UPDATE: Oh, by the way, senior Taliban commander killed in a raid by Afghan police in Zabul province, five militants killed by U.S. and Afghan military forces in Kunar province, eight militants captured in southern Khandahar. The headline in the New York Times today? "Afghan Battles See Higher Toll for Civilians." I'm not saying ignore the bad news in Afghanistan and Iraq. But don't ignore the good news, either. all relevant links here tks.nationalreview.com