Al Qaeda Down I

Chalk it up, please. British forces have killed Omar Farouq, a top Al Qaeda leader previously involved in coordinating activities between Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda elements in Indonesia. ("But I'm just not comfortable calling al Qaeda terrorists 'Islamo-Fascists!'" shouts Russ Feingold) American forces captured Omar Farouq in Afghanistan initially, but he escaped from custody there and went to Iraq. Did you hear that? Everyone on Dailykos just screamed, "Nooooooooo!" because, as everyone knows, there's NO connection between al Qaeda and Iraq, and NO connection between the real War on Terror in Afghanistan and Bush's War for Oil in Iraq. We're in Iraq because President Bush decided to take his eye off the ball, so it must be a figment of your imagination that this al Qaeda operative went from Afghanistan to Iraq. Anyway, Omar Farouq, who was in Basra, even though he couldn't have been in Iraq, fired on a squad as it entered his house and they killed him. The men who dispatched him came from the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, which fact I viewed with interest because a Corporal of that regiment gave us our fratricide briefing at Camp Buehring in Kuwait. Just after arriving in Kuwait in May, 2005, we had a briefing on fratricide prevention to give us information on what other friendly vehicles look like. The general idea was that we not shoot them. He had a strong accent, addressing us as a call for order, "All right, gents, se'tle down, then, se'tle down." We enjoyed that class thoroughly.
Heartiest congratulations to the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment. As you know, I take great satisfaction from these victories for the same reason that I took particular offense at the 9/11 attacks. Getting these guys is the job of men like me, so their victory is partly mine also. Hua!