Not What You Want»

I refrained from writing anything yesterday when the London Times said we had captured al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, because last year the same paper said he had been killed. And sure enough, the U.S. military says whoever we picked up wasn’t al-Masri, who’s real name is Abu Hamza al-Mujaher.

But for what happens if and when we do get that shmuck, check out Cernig:

The Sunni and Shiite faction-fights are now entirely independent of Al Qaeda’s influence while AQI’s activities in Mosul and beyond, based upon a cell system, will hardly be slowed by the loss of their leader. …

Its the demolition men, not the talking heads, that count. Still, it’s always nice to see one of those talking heads captured.