Last night, John wrote a post about the major breaking news claiming Al-Qaeda's number two had been taken out by a CIA missile. Given the Bush team's track record, John, unlike cable news, was skeptical. Our great allies in Pakistan say it didn't happen:
Al-Qaida's second-in-command was not at the site of a U.S. airstrike on a Pakistan village near the Afghan border that killed at least 17 people, two senior Pakistani officials said Saturday.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said that Pakistan's own investigation concluded that Ayman al-Zawahri was not in the village of Damadola.
"Their information was wrong, and our investigations conclude that they acted on a false information," said a senior intelligence official who has direct knowledge of the investigations launched by Pakistan to look into the attacks.
