I do not buy it. Neither do the gooners taken out in Pakistan by the JDAM last week!
I have nothing against taking out the leaders of a radical group--but how many times do you have to take out "the #3 leader in Al Queda" (as we have in the past) to realize that the cost of one JDAM is a lot more than a couple of a few .35 cent bullets directed by Spec. Ops guys?
One of Peters' sub-theses is that we will soon run out of expensive multi-million dollar technology used against a few 'gooners' in a tent. It's not a smart way to wage war and meet the threat.
Zawahiri? In case you missed today's news, the Z man is still making videos. And when they finally drop a JDAM with his name on it, he'll be replaced, because we haven't broken the will of the people that support him.