Eighty Percent Of Al-Qaeda No. 2s Now Dead

[Bjornsdotter]

You gotta love The Onion!

>WASHINGTON, DC—The Pentagon announced Monday that 80 percent of Osama bin Laden's seconds-in-command have been eliminated. "Nearly 1,600 al-Qaeda leaders ranked number two have been wiped out," Lt. Col. Mark Allison said. "That leaves only 400 of Osama bin Laden's right-hand men in the organization."<

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44900

Cheers!

[XOKCowboy]

1. Oh gawd thanks for that!!!

It's the first thing I saw when I opened DU just now. Gotta love The Onion.

:rofl:

[Lefty48197]

2. The most dangerous job in the world: #2 man at al Qaeda.

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[rucky]

4. It's like wearing a red shirt on Star Trek. n/t

[Arkham House]

3. Anyone remember Spectre--

--James Bond's archnemesis? Number One, of course, was always Ernst Stavro Blofeld...but #2's kept coming and going with a bewildering speed...some were killed by Bond, some were tossed by Blofeld to the piranhas, all had pretty short shelf lives...since we've turned "Al Qaida", in the public mind, into something not too dissimilar from the villains in a James Bond movie, one can be pretty sure that they'll always be a "#2" available to be massacred...while bin Laden, like Blofeld, will always elude us...

[Skittles]

5. and.....they are not being replaced

nooooooooooo :o

[appleannie1]

6. My math teacher did not

teach them how to count, that is for sure. She taught that there is only one number two and then comes three.