“I missed this when it came out last week,” says John Hinderaker at Power Line,” referring to this from an Al Qaeda leader, admitting, “The path is long and difficult, and the enemy isn’t easy, for he is great and numerous and he can take quite a bit of punishment as well, which the PL editor notes “is very different from how al Qaeda wrote about the U.S. after the flight from Somalia. It’s in
a new document at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center . . . a letter from a high-ranking al Qaeda officer named Atiyah, who passes on criticisms of Zarqawi that apparently originated with bin Laden, Zawahiri, or other top al Qaeda leaders. The document was found . . . in Zarqawi's "safe" house after he was terminated with extreme prejudice by an American bomb.
He shouldn’t feel too bad about missing it. So did Chi Trib, while featuring these stories that tell how bad things are:
Frist Says Afghan War Can't Be Won
Frist says Taliban can't be defeated
CIA chief warned Rice, records show
White House counters `Denial'
You can’t blame the Trib, which knows the real news is the latest from Bob Woodward. The heck with Al Q admitting it’s in trouble.
As for the entire Sun-Times group (your source for AP), not even the Winnetka Talk reporter has unearthed the message in Zarqawi’s house. His bosses are busy with those screaming headlines, apparently.
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