Just in case you missed it:
WASHINGTON — U.S. Special Forces killed Al Qaeda's No. 2 terror mastermind in Iraq, Defense Department officials said.
FOX News has confirmed that Abu Azzam, who was believed to have been in charge of the financing of terrorist cells in the war-torn country, was killed during a raid in Baghdad early Monday morning Iraq time. Azzam is thought to be the top deputy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted terrorist.
Of course, it isn't that difficult for terror outfits to raise money - not with Ben & Jerry's donating 1% for "peace" or whatever. Then again, Azzam's replacement will probably have more nervous tics.
UPDATE: A 10:52pm Mountain search for "Abu Azzam" on GoogleNews yielded all of 30 results - three of them blogs. A search for "Demi Moore" garnered 500+ results.
what are you talking about? this was the lengthy top story when i turned on the BBC this morning. it's the top google news story. what is your problem?
Yeah, you'd think that sometime in the last few years, a lot of news stories would have mentioned the name of "Al Qaeda's No. 2 terror mastermind in Iraq". Shouldn't he have been on a playing card or something?
Hamilton,
I would assume that there's been some, er, turnover, in the AQ leadership. You know, like when we kill 'em.
So I am not surprised he's relatively unknown.
Seems to me like most of our recent AQ leadership kills have been at the #3 rank, not the #2, so I question how unknown the #2 should be at this point.
All of which is to ignore Osama bin Elephant-in-the-room Laden.
Only 30 results? He couldn't have been that important then.
Somebody wrote at "The Corner", yesterday, that being Al Qaeda's #2 in Iraq was a bit like being the drummer in "Spinal Tap", not healthy.
Out of 29 wanted terrorists listed in the warrant, no one has a smaller reward offered for his capture than Abu Azzam. In fairness, he's tied for last place with nine others. However, the $50,000 offered for Abu Azzam pales in comparison to the $25 million, $10 million, $1 million, and $200,000 offered for others. If he was "the second most wanted al Qaeda leader in Iraq," as Bush referred to him, why such a small reward?
http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/9/29/097/73029
