Posted by
Scott Ott on Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:04:36 AM
Don't call him al Qaeda's
second-in-command anymore.
Ayman al-Zawahiri has just, in effect, announced that he is in charge of the terror network because Osama bin Laden is dead.
"Wait," you say, "I have not read or heard of Bin Laden's demise from any mainstream news source."
That's because mainstream journalists have no understanding of basic logic.
The official declaration that Mr. Bin Laden's body has declined to cave-temperature came in two, apparently unrelated, sentences from Mr. Zawahiri's latest audio release.
Here are the two statements:
1)
"We haven't
killed the innocents, not in Baghdad, nor in Morocco, nor in Algeria, nor anywhere else..."
2)
"Sheikh Osama bin Laden is healthy and well, by the grace of Allah..."
To state this in the language of logic: "If al Qaeda has not killed innocents (non-combatants), then Mr. Bin Laden is healthy and well. Because Qaeda does kill innocents almost daily, therefore Mr. Bin Laden is supine, subterranean, and pushing up poppies somewhere in Waziristan."
To state it more plainly: "If Bin Laden is healthy and well, then everyone who works in the World Trade Center in New York will be home for dinner tonight."
Mr. Zawahiri must be delighted to have the top job now, but for those of us who remember 9/11, he'll always be 'Number 2' ... and so will Mr. Bin Laden (peace, maggots and mold be upon him).