"Abu Khabab" Is Alive And Well & Living In London

After it started becoming "unlikely" that the Pakistani Predator strike killed Al-Zawahiri as originally suggested, unnamed intelligence sources in the Pakistani and U.S. governments began suggesting that the CIA killed Al Qaeda master bombmaker Abu Khabab and three other terrorists instead. Indeed, the State Department provided the oh-so-scary picture above on the left.

But ... Oooopppsss ... it turns out that the picture provided is not of Abu Khabab but of Abu Hamza, a radical London-based Imam. Indeed, the State Department picture even appears as if it has been photoshopped to make Khabab/Hamza appear blacker ... hmmmm.

Never fear, however. NBC's Lisa Myers informs us that "Pakistani intelligence officials say he was killed recently in the Predator missile attack in Pakistan." Again their is no named source for this and Myers, always a bit slow on the upkeep, fails to inform her readers that on CNN, just on Sunday, Pakistani Prime Minister Aziz stated flatly: "There is no evidence, as of half an hour ago, that there were any other people there." Adding, "[W]e have not found one body or one shred of evidence that these people were there," referring to Al Qaeda.


This story just seems to get stranger by the moment.

I'm also a bit suspicious about the names of the other Al Qaeda members - provided by Homeland Security Spokesperson Craig Fenson - claimed as killed:

M'Balz Es-Hari
Haid D'Salaami
Izheet Mahdrourz

Something sounds amiss.