Another One Bites the Dust

Al Qaeda’s number three leader, an Egyptian named Abu Hamza Rabia, was killed in an apparent rocket strike in Pakistan on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Pakistani government, which seems to be increasingly nervous about its public role opposing terrorism, said that Rabia blew himself up while working with explosives. Rabia reportedly succeeded Abu Faraj al-Libbi, who was captured earlier this year, as al Qaeda’s chief planner of terrorist attacks. His death is certainly good news.

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