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Al-Zawahiri Dead, Conspiracy Suspected

By: streiff (Diary)  |  August 1st, 2008 at 02:24 PM  | 

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STRATFOR (subscription only) is reporting that Pakistan is rife with rumors that Ayman al-Zawahiri, former surgeon and current #2 in al-Qaeda, has been killed in a US airstrike.

Bill Roggio of Long War Journal demurs and I am personally agnostic beyond appreciating the confusion this will sow in al Qaeda until the situation sorts itself out.

If al-Zawahiri is dead I can fill you in on the left’s narrative.

He was actually taken prisoner months/years ago and has been held in some secret CIA prison. Now the military has drugged him, taken him to a remote site, and hit him with an airstrike. They did this to help John McCain win the election.

How else do you explain it happening right now? Hmmmm?

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  • E_Pluribus_Unum

    I don’t care how they spin it. If true, this is a large “Atta boy!”.

    Kind of a shame that this is buried in a pretty busy news day.

    • ptort

      try to credit Obama with the kill because he was calling for unilateral action in Pakistan.

      • tankertodd

        We didn’t waterboard him, we sent him over to one of our allies to waterboard him because the CIA didn’t want to violate the law. But the CIA took custody of him to strap him to a chair right where a 1000 lb. laser guided bomb was headed.

        Because it may be illegal to torture, it’s still legal to kill.

  • bk

    “He was actually taken prisoner months/years ago and has been held in some secret CIA prison where they tortured/waterboarded him. Now the military has drugged him, taken him to a remote site, and hit him with an airstrike. They did this to help John McCain win the election.”

    And besides, this will just make them hate us even more, so it’s bad news no matter what.

  • bk

    Some other things we might hear from the left:

    • Bush waited so long to catch him that he had time to train many replacements, so his capture is irrelevant.

    • Where’s Osama? When we had a chance to get the job done at Tora Bora, he outsourced it yadayadayada.