US officials hail major breakthrough in terror war as "number two" al Qaeda leader killed again

Oh for fucks sake. Come on, US officials, how many times can you get al Qaeda's number two leader?

These terrorists must have more vice-presidents than GM back in the seventies. I suppose it could be true though. After all, every time they get "number two" another number three guy gets a promotion.

The scoop on this particular kill is that the target was packed into a car with six others, all of whom were dispatched to paradise. Let's do the math. Six towellers in a Toyota... we're talking extended families that number into the tens of thousands, every one of them now sworn to seek revenge on America.

This is a major breakthrough in the war on terror?

By God, this really could be the war that never ends!