(via Hot Air) There’s a reason why the previous graphic said ‘hopefully’ dead. According to an account in another Pakistani newspaper, Gadahn is still alive despite rumors of his demise over the last two months.
Meanwhile, the Al-Qaeda Spokesman Ahmad Salman contradicted reports regarding killing of Ezzam Al-Americee in the recent missile attack at Khushhali Toorikhel near Mirali Town of North Waziristan Agency on January 29 last.
The Spokesman said that Ezzam Al Americee is alive.
The leading Al-Qaeda figure Abu Laith Al Laibi along with his aides Abu Sahal and Abu Obaid from Egypt were killed in missile attack at Khushhali Toorikhel, North Waziristan Agency.
Ezzam Al Americee is another name for good old American terrorist Adam Pearlman, who fled to find jihad and falafel after 9/11.
Ed Morrissey spins it silver-lining style.
That doesn’t mean the US wouldn’t like to get their hands on Gadahn. Lord Haw Haw didn’t have much strategic value as a target during World War II, but that didn’t keep the British from stretching his neck at the end of it. That seems a better end for Gadahn anyway — having to face his former countrymen and returning to the US not to bring the ummah to North America, but to face justice for his treason.
If you’d like a more concrete silver lining: Somalia Al Qaeda go boom.
The U.S. military targeted suspected “terrorists” in a strike launched early on Monday in Dobley, Somalia, a senior U.S. military official said.
The official, who declined to be named, told Reuters: “We launched a deliberate strike against a suspected bed-down of known terrorists.”
He said it was too early to know what damage had been inflicted, including whether any people were injured or killed in the strike launched overnight Washington time (early morning GMT). The official declined to give details on the type of weapon used.
This was the fourth U.S. air strike on Somalia in 14 months.
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