US air strike kills Al-Qaeda kingpin

[ECH1969]

American forces killed an Al-Qaeda chieftain in the lawless western Iraqi city of Ramadi by destroying his car with a laser guided bomb, the US military said Thursday.

"Rafa Abdul Salam Hamud al-Ithawi, also known as Abu Taha, was the emir of Shamiyyah," it said.

"He frequently harboured foreign fighters who entered Iraq illegally in order to assault innocent Iraqis and coalition forces."

http://www.thenews.com.pk/update_detail.asp?id=12231

[TomInTib]

1. WE ARE SAVED!!!

At least we will not be fighting them in the streets of San Francisco!

THANK YOU, GWB!!!

I can now sleep peacefully.

And I will now get back to my guitar...

[xchrom]

6. no, no -- didn't you get the evangelical memo --

it's The Gays you're fighting in the streets of san francisco.

we're fighting al queada in the streets of decatur illinois.

[wakeme2008]

2. WHO nt

[ima_sinnic]

3. oh, in that case I am definitely going to vote republican on tuesday!

NOT!

and by the way, "he frequently harbored foreign fighters who entered Iraq illegally in order to assault innocent Iraqis"--so he was putting up U.S. troops?

[izzie]

4. Maybe we are not doing this right?

--

[Chipper Chat]

5. Yea! We got No. #2

Bush will call a news conference today to gloat.
"we ARE winning the war in Iraq"
"democrats who oppose the war are traitors"
"Rush Limbaugh is god"

[Nolo_Contendre]

7. He has a secret plan to kill them all at only $389,000 per head

1% of 1.2 billion Muslims - purported allies = 11.9 million
11.9 million X $389K = $4,629,100,000,000.00


A bargain at twice the price! But I'm sure Halliburton could come up with a more cost-effective Final Solution using Zyklon-B.

[acmavm]

8. I've been expecting this. Everytime bush**, chainsaw, and rumdumb

are in trouble or there's an election of any sort, we kill a top al Quaeda guy or three.

[mallard]

9. Re: way to dangerous down there on the ground in Ramadi ....

... to bust 'em and put him on trial while removing his unsavory private army from that nice historic city with our much better, locally-based and tactically superior one.

Too bad for justice old style.

Should be high noon at the OK Corral by now, but that's lunchtime for the Green Zone, so it don't fly when you can zap it and let the locals pick thru the bones for the ones too wicked to get a hearing, nevermind arraignment.

Nantou County, Taiwan ROC

(Much to say on Thai coup - having been in Ratchaburi, where newly self-appointed gov't agents were using highways motor pool heavy equipment to pull some well-marked meteorite rocks off from the roadside at Khao Bin National Park. The balls to steal from the king this year, Lord.)

[EFerrari]

10. What else did that strike kill? n/t

[wholetruth00]

11. So we killed all the No. 2's; now we are going after "kingpins."

[Doremus]

12. Beat me to it.

Coming soon:

Top Dogs
Point Men
Masterminds
Top Bananas
Head Honchos
Big Cheeses
Mr. Bigs

[MrPrax]

14. Don't forget "deadenders!!" n/t

[pinniped]

13. Benchmark or bullshit?

All signs point to bullshit.

[endarkenment]

16. We are now having benchmarks of bullshit.

We've been here before. If you are old enough to remember the 'body count' benchmark days of 'nam, that was the last time we were into a serious benchmark of bullshit phase.

[bif]

15. Now I can relax!

Now that the kingpin is dead.