Well Cons, there you go. Something to cheer about, right?
No doubt this will be the prominent event for a few days. Tony Blair has wasted no time in cheering what a great blow vs. Al Qaeda this is. A Jordanian, who was really a minor player in the insurgency, killed. Well, it's something.
Al-Maliki cleverly named his two most controversial cabinet picks when he announced this news (the U.S. waited and allowed him to break the story), timed for maximum propagandic effect. Well done, played about as well as it could be.
What's it mean? Not much, really. In a few weeks you won't even remember his name. We've killed the number three guy (so we were told) in OBL's organization a number of times. I forget what their names were.
The news media now has to build up another 'Hassan-Ben-Sober' to put a personal face on the 'enemy' for the dumbasses to follow.
We will now see the Bush administration through their various proxies saying how their 'stay the course' strategy is beginning to pay-off.
No troop withdrawl -- the build up for the Ramadi offensive continues.
2006-06-08
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