A Triumph for Something

From the Beeb:

"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the death of top African al-Qaeda militant Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is a 'significant blow' to the group.

He and another militant were killed earlier this week in a shootout with police at a checkpoint in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, officials said.

Mr Mohammed was the most wanted man in Africa, with a $5m bounty on his head.

He was suspected of having played a key role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, which killed 224 people.

He was also accused of attacking Israeli targets on the Kenyan coast in 2002, and was recently believed to have been working with the Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, which controls much of southern Somalia..."

From the SwoonPost:

"DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first U.S. official to publicly confirm the death of the al-Qaida operative behind the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

A Somali minister earlier Saturday said officials in that country have determined that a man killed by security forces on Tuesday was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.

Now Clinton says in a statement while in Tanzania that his death is a 'significant blow to al-Qaida, its extremist allies and its operations in East Africa.'

She says it's 'a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents" from the embassy bombings'..."

From the court transcriptions of the proceedings in which a tribunal or jury convicted Mr. Mohammed; or, from the video footage of him performing these acts; or, from the public testimony of witnesses; or, from his signed and witnessed confession:

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And that's the thing, isn't it?

Without conceding the laughable claim that the death of a single man has in any way degraded the fighting and/or carrying capacity of the fictional international terrorist cartel, "Al Qaeda," we are yet again being asked by the corporate press and their state collaborators to just trust them on their assertion of fact, claims to validity and offers of truth.

Because, y'know, they were so wicked forthright and shit about anything over the last, I don't know, ten decades?