AL QAEDA BOMBMAKER KILLED?

This from The Counterterrorism Blog

ABC News broke the story (I'm sure there was much gnashing of teeth over this!) this afternoon that maybe the CIA hit in Pakistan wasn't such a bad idea after all.

Seems al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, Midhat Mursi, a.k.a. Midhat Mursi al-Sayyid Umar, a.k.a. Abu Khabab al-Masri, a.k.a. Abu Khabab, was killed in the attack in Pakistan. A friend in the media with excellent official sources, as well as CNN's David Ensor, report that US government officials can't confirm the killing but won't dissuade the reports either. If true, this is almost as good as killing al-Zawahri; we had a $5 million reward out for Abu Khabab for his long success in training hundreds of terrorists in Afghanistan (including Richard Reid and Zacharias Moussaoui) and plans for chemical WMD attacks.

And another one bites the dust ... I can but hope.

Four jihadist murderers were suspected killed but, taking a page out of the guerilla warfare textbook, the bodies may have been spirited away. Dead is dead, so it works for me, regardless. Let's hear it for Predator attack drones ... for when you want to send only the very best.