$5 Millions Bucks Saved

While the media is droning on about possible civilian casualties caused by a recent US missile strike in Pakistan, you may have missed this tidbit:

ABC News has learned that al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week's U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan.

Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, was identified by Pakistani authorities as one of three known al Qaeda leaders present at an apparent terror summit conference in the village of Damadola.

Score one more for the good guys, and that's a cool 5 million (the reward money for Mursi) in the bank (or the bottomless pit known as government spending, but we won't go there right now.)

Oh, and about those civilian casualties. While I grieve for any innocents killed, especially children, I can't fault us for making the strike. The world needs to understand that in our war against terror, we are going to kill terrorists, wherever we find them. So going to a meeting, or a dinner party, or whatever that has known terrorists attending or planning to attend is a very risky move. And Pakistan in particular needs to pick up the pace in letting her people know that they can't harbor these murderers.