(Picture from Fox News)Today it was reported that one of al-Qaeda's key Iraqi operatives, Khaled al-Mashhadani, was arrested. He is considered the "highest ranking" Iraqi member of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda. He is a close friend of Abu Ayub al-Masri, an Egyptian by birth, who serves as the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
al-Mashhadani acted as a channel between Osama bin Laden, Masri, and Zawahiri.
Catching al-Mashhadani is a success and should be treated as such by the media. Now that we have him, we need to find out what he knows by whatever means necessary, whether it be waterboarding, sleep deprivation, or drastic climate changes.
This success is similar to last summer, June 2006, when Al-Zarqawi was killed. This strike was an important rebound after we failed to kill Zawahiri with an air-strike in Pakistan (Jan 2006).
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