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Top Al-Qaeda Operative in Iraq Killed Near Baquba, U.S. Says, that's Caroline Alexander's story today in the Top Worldwide page of the Bloomberg.com website.

Some excerpts:

A senior al-Qaeda operative in Iraq was killed by U.S. forces near Baquba, a city northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said today. Rafid Ibrahim Fattah, also known as Abu Umar al-Kurdi, visited Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iran during the past 15 years…

“The…al-Qaeda Ambassador…established liason between terrorist networks.”

More than 115 top leaders of the al-Qaeda network, including Abu Umar,''have been taken out over the past several months''

Read the whole story.

One at a time is fine. We’re getting the job done. That’s not to guarantee that there will not be setbacks (good news for the MSM and their liberal cohorts). Hey, that’s life. But let’s not lose sight of the goal. And the brave men and women of the US military who are in harm’s way so we won’t have to be.