SUCCESSFUL STRIKE - AT 8:09 A.M. ET:  From The New York Times:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Pakistan’s fearsome Taliban militia, was killed Wednesday in a C.I.A. missile strike, two Taliban fighters said Friday, adding that a meeting was taking place to determine which of his top deputies would replace him.

Memorial services will be held at Code Pink headquarters later today.  Be there. 

This was a successful operation, and it reminds us of the importance of good intelligence.  We knew where this guy would be.

The Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan, one senior leader reached by telephone in Orakzai Agency, and one local Taliban fighter in Waziristan, said that Mr. Mehsud had been receiving kidney treatment from a relative in his father-in-law’s house in the remote village of Zanghara when missiles fired from a remotely-piloted drone struck.

Too bad he didn't have Obamacare.  He would have been on a waiting list for a year, and wouldn't have been there, like a sitting duck, getting treatment.  You see, there are advantages to the new order.

August 7, 2009