I am with you on that. We know they are ranked just for political points.

July 11th

“Being No. 3 in al-Qaida is a bad job. We regularly get to the No. 3 person,” Tom Fingar, the top U.S. intelligence analyst, told the House panel.

We just know they are not #1 or #2. But I am glad to get every one.

H/T: Hot Air: From tonight’s ABC World News. Allegedly it was recorded 36 hours before we finally zapped him, after he crossed over into southern Afghanistan from — where else? — the Pakistani city of Quetta, also known as Taliban……

After the capture of the Taiban’s number 3 man (apparently a big yapper), the CIA is rushing resources to Pakistan: “Reports that the trail has gone stone cold are not correct,” said one U.S. official. “We are very much increasing……

Isn’t that something. A country with one of the highest records in Muslim crime has at least arrested a notorious member of the Taliban…

Where can I find this list? How does a person move up from say #7 to #6? Inquiring minds want to know…

Still good news. Coupled with the news from Anbar it’s been a bad couple of days for the Jihad.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-03-01T201619Z_01_KHA132041_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

I have said all along that this is a war on ideologies, not men. BUT this is where I disagree with the futileness of the shark and “rows of teeth” analogy.

Capturing and killing guys like this does help us change hearts and minds. The extremist mindset is not a monolithic entity of one heart, one mind. There are levels of committment from the bottom up, and as we capture and kill these crazy fools, the pool of idiots who are willing to blow themselves up for a lost cause will diminish exponentially (after it’s peak). Additionally, capturing the leadership has the same affect on their command and control structure as it would on ours if our top leaders were captured. If we can keep killing the leadership, the pool of qualified candidates become shallower. Having said that, we definitely need to accomplish these killings much quicker.

I have said all along that this is a war on ideologies, not men. BUT this is where I disagree with the futileness of the shark and “rows of teeth” analogy.

Capturing and killing guys like this does help us change hearts and minds. The extremist mindset is not a monolithic entity of one heart, one mind. There are levels of committment from the bottom up, and as we capture and kill these crazy 8astards, the pool of idiots who are willing to blow themselves up for a lost cause will diminish exponentially (after it’s peak). Additionally, capturing the leadership has the same affect on their command and control structure as it would on ours if our top leaders were captured. If we can keep killing the leadership, the pool of qualified candidates become shallower. Having said that, we definitely need to accomplish these killings much quicker.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Granted, the Alabama tornadoes are very big news, so Drudge has them splashed all over his page. But I would have expected at least a one-liner about this in the “world” section of CNN’s webpage.

Does anyone at CNN or Drudge care to explain how HotAir can scoop them even when approximately 80% of HA’s small staff is at CPAC?

Anyone?

This whole BS about killing or capturing a #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,…………. solves NOTHING. We’re not fghting a man. We are fighting an ideology. An ideology that has no middle ground. All or nothing. Most of the world does not work that way.

Well put. The Koran won’t be changing anytime soon so this type of thinking will persist for our lifetime.

Some people just need killin’.

The Democrats are in control, they will get him a lawyer, he will make bail, flee………… then the ACLU will take over his case, get it dismissed, all the time arresting Border Patrol Agents………

You guys have to start living in the “real” world………. this was never a “war”, it’s an “infraction”…..

(yes, sarcasim ON)

The GWOT is not about one or more “persons”, it is about an ideology. Whack Osama? Big deal. There are tens of thousands ready to take his place. And Entelechy is 100% correct. The idealogues feed on legend. It hardens their resolve. “Murder” the champion, we will find more champions.

This whole BS about killing or capturing a #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,…………. solves NOTHING. We’re not fghting a man. We are fighting an ideology. An ideology that has no middle ground. All or nothing. Most of the world does not work that way.

No human being wakes in the morning and questions the belief system they have in place. Not one. Even liberals who claim to be “open minded” have already come to the conclusions they required to make them liberals. They have closed their minds to anything that contradicts their mind-set. The debate is over. So STOP debating. They require a change of heart, NOT a change of mind. Have any of you seen a debate where a proponent of one side convinced the opposing side to change? Never happened.

FWIW, “radical” Islam did not start with OBL, it started with Mohammed. The author of this……… “faith”.

Those hijackers did not scream loyalty to Osama when they murdred all of those people on that day. They praised Allah and the Prophet(fleas be upon him). So WHO are we looking for????

Should not be “who”, should be “what”.

Talon, I’m with you. I would have preferred that they’d have killed Saddam upon capture. Now his lawyer will print legends about his capture et all, in a book to come out in the next few months and it will be never-ending…none of which to be proven. That region thrives on legends.

Once upon a time he was Afghanistan’s defense minister under the Taliban regime; he surrendered to the Northern Alliance shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2001 — and then was promptly released as part of an “amnesty deal,”

Sorry, Allah, but President Bush, Mel Martinez, and the rest of the open borders crowd prefer the term “earned citizenship” deal.

SUCCESSES,NOT sucesses.

Gotta’ go walk my carbon footprint.

Ever heard about how sharks have ROWS of teeth just WAITING to replace the one in front?

Pull a tooth and there is another RIGHT behind it.

Bout time we just killed the GD shark eh?