Al-Zawahri was here (last year)

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Al-Zawahri met deputy at scene of missile strike: officials

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Al-Qaida's second-in-command met his deputy last year at a house hit in a recent U.S. missile strike in which at least four of the terror network's operatives may have died, Pakistani intelligence officials said Saturday.

Everywhere he visits is a legitimate target?

Ayman al-Zawahri, the apparent target of the Jan. 13 attack, met his deputy, Abu Farraj al-Libbi, in Damadola early last year, a security official said on condition of anonymity, adding that Libyan-born Al-Libbi told Pakistani interrogators of the meeting after his capture in May 2005.

He told them right after they removed the jumper cables from his genitals.

An Islamic Web site released a tape from al-Zawahri Friday, but U.S. officials said the tape could have been made much earlier. Al-Zawahri did not discuss the Damadola attacks in his comments, but praised the "martyrs of holy war" in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

Cheney pulled it out of the CIA library.

Pakistani authorities have released conflicting statements about the airstrike in recent days. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Friday there was no "tangible evidence" that any extremists had gathered in Damadola, while Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and provincial authorities earlier confirmed the presence of "foreign terrorists" in the area on the night of the attack.

Flipfloppers.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/01/21/1404768-ap.html

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1. good publicity and reason to attach-How much did they pay this official?

a security official said on condition of anonymity,

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3. Information Minister

pretty orwellian

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2. Apparently when it comes to bombing 'strategic' Al Quaeda sites they

go by the 'better late than never' rule.

So what if he's not there, he was at one time. (These guys are absolutely bat shit crazy.)

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4. Bushco are feeling the pressure.

My guess is that they were saving this attack for a choice moment. It backfired and they didn't get the good PR they expected so they had to up the ante with a bin Laden video.