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This is obviously huge news, and I was very glad to hear it. Also, awesome for U.S. morale (military/home). I would be careful how much weight is put into it in the long term. As we have seen, Zawahri was already attempting to distance the main AQ bigs from Zarqawi in the recent past. They understood that many of his tactics were not helping them on the Arab street.

Also, most of the 1,400 or so deaths in the past month in Iraq have been caused by militias. Perhaps he already completed his job as chief incitement officer, and now will go down as just another 'glorified martyr.'

He will be replaced, probably within days... But, this is one of the bigger hits in the WOT, so there is clearly some reason to be happy.

http://worldanalysis.org/CMS/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=976&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

"Canada: RCMP foiled dozen plots in past two years"
Posted by: worldanalysis on Jun 08, 2006 - 12:00 AM

JEFF SALLOT AND BRIAN LAGHI
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "OTTAWA — The RCMP has quietly broken up at least a dozen terrorist groups in the past two years, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.

"We have completed 12 disruptions of national-level terrorist groups across the country," the Mounties say in briefing notes prepared for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.

Disruptive tactics -- sometimes as simple as letting targets know they are under close surveillance -- are used to prevent a terrorist attack when the police do not have enough evidence to lay criminal charges, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service say.

Unlike the high-profile arrests and court proceedings resulting from the weekend roundup of terrorist suspects in Southern Ontario, the public rarely learns about these operations, federal security officials say.

The briefing notes, released to The Globe under the Access to Information Act, are part of the transition book prepared by the RCMP for Mr. Day when the Conservatives formed a new government in February.

The material does not provide details of the 12 disruption operations. Nor does it identify the groups or indicate where they were located.

But the RCMP stated that as a result of its projects and investigations, "the threat of terrorist activity in Canada and abroad has been reduced.""