Another good headline for us.
U.S.: CIA Drone Kills 2 Al Qaeda Commanders
Let's overlook, for a second that we are casually learning that the CIA is using the drones to pop the bad guys now. Not contractors, not the
military, but the CIA.
Ok.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. believes Central Intelligence Agency drone attacks have killed two prominent Islamic militant figures in Pakistan
affiliated with Al Qaeda, one of whom was on the U.S.'s list of top 20 targets, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Hooray for the drones. They score another victory. Popping two bad guys high up on the list.
online.wsj.com...
One drone attack Monday is believed to have killed the leader of the Islamic Jihad Union, Najmiddin Kamolitdinovich Jalolov, an Uzbek native
implicated in terrorist plots and attacks in Germany and Uzbekistan. Officials said they are almost certain he was killed, though a DNA test hasn't
yet been performed.
A drone attack on Sept. 7 appeared to have killed another prominent Islamic militant, Ilyas Kashmiri, who had been briefly detained in Pakistan for
alleged involvement in a 2003 assassination attempt against then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. There is less certainty about his death,
however.
The two men are "solid midlevel commanders," said Bruce Hoffman, a Georgetown University professor who specializes in terrorism. Targeting
middle-level officers is important, he said, because "when you do kill the senior commanders, there's no one to fill their shoes."
CIA drone attacks intensified in the early months of the Obama administration. A drone last month claimed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud,
who was believed to have been responsible for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
It seems that these drones are having a lot more success than the troops on the ground. When was the last time we heard about troops catching one of
the top bad guys? I have nothing against the troops. But I do have a question.
Why are they still THERE? We are having extremely good 'hunting' apparently, using CIA drones (wth) and drones don't endanger any more American
lives.
Do we need any other proof that the 'war' in Afghanistan is a sham? We can spend 8 years with 60,000 troops on the ground and have more success
impacting these terrorist organizations using a dozen drone missions.
Makes a lot of sense to me. It has nothing to DO with bringing anyone to 'justice.' That is painfully obvious.
