Winning Hearts and Minds; Not

Buried in this story about the survival of al-Qaeda was this quote:

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After nightfall on Jan. 13, 2006, an unmanned Predator aircraft guided by the CIA fired missiles at two houses in the northwestern Pakistani village of Damadola, a few miles from the Afghan border.

The target was a dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. CIA officials had received intelligence that Ayman al-Zawahiri , al-Qaeda's deputy leader, had been invited to attend.

The missiles destroyed the houses and killed more than a dozen people. Zawahiri was not among them, but Pakistani officials soon said the fatalities included several other high-ranking al-Qaeda leaders.

Musharraf identified one of the dead as Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, an Egyptian who had overseen al-Qaeda's research into chemical weapons and carried a $5 million U.S. government bounty on his head.

Musharraf and other Pakistani officials said those buried in the rubble also included Abu Obaidah al-Masri, the Egyptian chief of the al-Qaeda military wing that plots attacks in the West; Khalid Habib , a field commander for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan; and Zawahiri's son-in-law, Abdul Rahman al-Maghribi.

U.S. and Pakistani officials now say that none of those al-Qaeda leaders perished in the strike and that only local villagers were killed.

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You want to bet that, in the portions of the world that are not served by Fox Noise and that are not subject to the whining of Republican sycophants, that this story will get a bit more play?

Do you want to bet what the lead will be on this story in other countries?

Killing 20 innocent people at a holiday celebration with a bomb; do you want to bet that somebody is going to make the point that the only difference between an al-Qaeda strike and an CIA strike is that the CIA usually doesn't use suicide bombers?