Did We Liquidate Zawahiri?

Maybe.

While Osama may be the sizzle, Zawahiri is the steak. He's the man who's been making the live videos the last five years since Osama was turned into rat food inside a cave became reclusive and doesn't do live action anymore.

Here's Roggio:

Pakistani and US intelligence are attempting to sort out the names of the al Qaeda and Taliban operatives killed in yesterday's airstrike in Azam Warzak, South Waziristan. Initial reports indicated Arabs and fighters from Central Asia were killed in the operation. One report indicates an "al Qaeda fugitive from Egypt" was among those killed, sparking rumors that Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of the strike.

South Waziristan Taliban commander Mullah Nazir, who is often characterized as a "pro-government" Taliban leader, appears to be the center of the storm. "Sources said that the militants belonged to the Abu Hamza group whose leader was said to be a follower of local militant commander Maulvi Nazir," Dawn reported. The attack occurred at the home of Shero Wazir, a follower of Nazir "who had rented it out to an Arab."

Definitely thin but the fact that "Arab al-Qaeda" were on the scene makes me think it was someone big. Roggio lays it out in a fashion that makes me think there's more to it but we won't know about it unless al-Qaeda chooses to make a martyr out of him. They didn't do it with many others so the odds are we'll be stuck in the dead/alive limbo we've experienced with Osama since Tora Bora.

Let's hope we vaporized the heathen bastard and his blood soaked turban is stuck on some safe house wall in Waziristan drawing flies.

Either way. we are taking it to al-Qaeda as we have been for six+ years but seem to be stepping it up. They can't be feeling at all comfortable. Perhaps Bush knows that an Obama presidency will mean a defensive posture and allow al-Qaeda to reconstitute itself thus putting us at greater risk than ever. Perhaps Bush knows we have to step it up and take out every single jihadi mofo we can in the next eleven months. At least I hope that's the plan.

Ghadan earlier and now Dr. Zawahiri? If so, it would be at least the most successful week we've had since we caught Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or when we nabbed Zubaydah.