The desperately-in-need-of-a-haircut Pakistani Taliban supremo, Baitullah Mehsud, has assumed ambient temperature; or rather, the extant bits and pieces of him have. Much like the end of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, this will not mean the end of his movement, but it does move the end a little closer. And it’s just a nice little pick-me-up for the day. UJ at B5 agrees.
Congrats are due to every man and woman in that kill chain.
Now if we just could put a 2000-pounder on the meeting to pick his successor…
Fox News reported today that the biggest bomb the Predator could carry was the 500 pounder. We just have to be a little more precise with our aim at the big meeting, that’s all.
We might not have to drop a bomb on them. Let the Taliban do it themselves. Associated Press is reporting one of the successors may have been killed already:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan