Another One Bites the Dust

The Long War Journal: Al Qaeda has confirmed that the US killed the leader of the Lashkar al Zil, or the Shadow Army, the terror group's military organization along the Afghan and Pakistani border.

Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's leader in Afghanistan, said that Abdullah Said al Libi was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan. Yazid confirmed that Al Libi was killed in a tape praising the suicide attack on the CIA base in Khost. Yazid also confirmed that Saleh al Somali, al Qaeda's former external operations chief, was also killed in a US attack.

Bet these guys don't think President Obama's "pretending we're not at war."

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/01/us_killed_al_qaedas.php#ixzz0bwoLwZJb

I've got to ask this hypothetical. If, during WW II, we'd confirmed that a US Airstrike had killed, say, Nazi Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, or Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, or someone of equal stature, wouldn't it be front page news?

So how come it's left to obscure blogs to report victories in the war on al Quaeda?