U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist - described by President Bush today as the "second-most-wanted Al Qaeda leader in Iraq" - was as significant a figure as the Bush administration is claiming....UPDATE:
"If I had a nickel for every No. 2 and No. 3 they've arrested or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, I'd be a millionaire," says Kohlmann, a New York-based analyst who tracks the Iraq insurgency and who first expressed skepticism about the Azzam claims in a posting on The Counterterrorism Blog.
I wasn't thinking straight when I posted this -- of course, if you kill a Number 2 then, presumably, a Number 3 steps in to take Number 2's place, and so on. Therefore, you can kill a Number 2 into infinity.
Otherwise known as quagmire.
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I found you via a search on The Wege (Norwegianity). I find it amazing how much stuff you get out here every day. But more than that I wonder if you've ever bumped into Unblague, a law student who blogs from your neck of the woods (obviously knowing there are at least a dozen schools of some merit in DC). I've been enjoying your blog - you've made a serious effort to get things you feel are important out there.
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