It's official, even CNN is reporting it: Al Masri is "alive and well."

[Atman]

BushCo tried to deflect again, but even the friendly media has stopped playing along.

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[jackstraw45]

1. Misinformation campaign BRIEFLY exposed on ABC...before pulled by MSM bosses

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x796047

[acmavm]

2. So they lied. What's new?

[iamthebandfanman]

3. who cares

what importance to us is he REALLY?
he is one guy. after him there will be another.

why we get so fixated on one person is beyond me. i guess people need a face to project their hatred to wards to feel better.

[Atman]

4. OMG -- most incredible spin ever added to the report...

The BushCo-friendly stenographer in Baghdad just said that "even though he appears to be fine" the joy and celebration of the tribal leaders when they THOUGHT they had killed the #1 Al Qaida leader shows that we are, in fact, turning a corner "in subtle ways" in Iraq.

Wha-wha-whhaaaaaat?

It was fake, it never happened, but if it had happened it would be proof that we're making progress? Jesus, who thought up this line of reasoning??? That's too stupid to have come even from Rove's office. I cannot believe I just heard that!

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[partylessinOhio]

5. How many times has this happened before? Seems like a rerun.

I'm happy he is safe, I've seen enough dead people.

[NightWatcher]

6. every two months we kill the #2 of Al Qaeda

This guy dies more often that a red shirt from the original Star Trek.

[magellan]

7. Has it ever been verified that al-Masri is anywhere but

...in a prison cell in Egypt as his lawyer insists? I don't know how that was resolved, if it ever was. Did the Egyptians free him? Did he bust out? What?