[Dog]

Pakistan needs to get it's act together. First Zawahiri was surrounded .....then no he wasn't. Now we have Al Qaeda intelligence chief killed.........no it was only the local AQ spy in Wana.

[Dog]

Swarthyguy.....the Pakistani's are turning out to be something else.

[beaversmom]

Ping me when they get a biggie! Preferably with pics included--head on a stick sort of thing.

[onyx]

This is about as clear as mud.
Maybe I am missing something?

[Coop]

First Zawahiri was surrounded .....then no he wasn't.

Now you're buying into it, Dog. I don't recall a single member of the Pakistani military or government mentioning al Zawahiri as being cornered. It was unsourced rumor control concerning a possible high value target.

[chilepepper]

So it looks like DEBKA was pretty much on the mark after all, eh???

[MEG33]

It wasn't such a big guy after all.

[nuconvert]

"Sultan still refused to answer questions whether the military recovered Abdullah's body, saying he has no details about the full name, nationality and identity of the man."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107784/posts

So which version has more credibility?

[Dog Gone]

Any al-Qaida member they kill represents progress. Too bad it wasn't the biggie, though.

[Angelus Errare]

You know, the complete Pakistani incompetence with regard to this whole operation would be almost comical were this not so serious. They had in excess of 10,000 troops involved in this operation with armor and air support against ~700 al-Qaeda and they got their heads handed to them. How these people could ever have serious ambitions about defeating India is beyond me.