From Times Online:A top al-Qaeda explosives expert was the main target of the US spy-drone attack in Pakistan last weekend and not the British terrorism suspect who also apparently died in the strike, intelligence sources have told The Times.
Abu Zubair al-Masri, an Egyptian described as being “high up in the al-Qaeda pecking order”, was understood to have been holding an operational meeting with four other key figures, including Rashid Rauf, the British-Pakistani terror suspect, when three Hellfire missiles were fired at their thick-walled compound in the village of Ali Khel, about ten miles from the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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My Comment: The Times article on Bush wanting to have a legacy is silly. His legacy is already assured, and he has no need to work on that. But the fear of a terrorism attack that would test a Preseident Obama is a legitimate one, for if it should occur within only a few months after President Obama has come to power, it will be President Bush who would be blamed for it.
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