HE'LL NEVER GET THE CORNER OFFICE – AT 8:21 A.M. ET:  We're always happy to report a victory.  From Fox:

WASHINGTON -- Al Qaeda announced Monday that its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family -- perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the U.S. campaign against Al Qaeda began. A senior U.S. official told Fox News that al-Yazid died in a U.S. missile strike...

...The statement did not give an exact date for al-Yazid's death, but it was dated by the Islamic calendar month of "Jemadi al-Akhar," which falls in May.

A U.S. official in Washington said word had been "spreading in extremist circles" of his death in Pakistan's tribal areas in the past two weeks and the U.S. government had confirmed the reports.

His death is a major blow to Al Qaeda, which in December "lost both its internal and external operations chiefs," the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.

And...

In the early 1980s, al-Yazid served three years in an Egyptian prison for purported links to the group responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. After his release, al-Yazid turned up in Afghanistan, where, according to Al Qaeda's propaganda wing Al-Sabah, he became a founding member of the terrorist group.

COMMENT:  We await expressions of grief by the ACLU. 

It's a victory, but one of many that will have to be won in what clearly will be a very long strugle.

June 1, 2010