no administration left behind
two items today on the bush adminstration’s trouble with math…
first, let’s do the serious one. this is practice for numbers 3 and 4.
Libyan is 4th Al-Qaida No. 3 captured so far [ap via pittsburgh post gazette 2005.05.08]A Libyan seized in Pakistan last week was the fourth purported No. 3 leader of al-Qaida killed or captured since the Sept. 11 attacks, but the global dragnet has yet to reach up the terror group’s hierarchy to the main prizes — Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman Zawahiri.
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The first man dubbed al-Qaida’s No. 3, Mohammed Atef, was killed by a U.S. airstrike on Kabul in November 2001 as the Taliban regime crumbled in Afghanistan.
Abu Zubaydah, the next to assume the role, was captured March 28, 2002, in the eastern city of Faisalabad. The Saudi-born Palestinian survived gunshot wounds in the stomach, groin and leg, and has been in U.S. custody ever since.
Zubaydah’s replacement, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital, on March 1, 2003. He also is in U.S. custody.
Ramzi Binalshibh, another top bin Laden deputy, was arrested in the southern city of Karachi on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
sucks to be #3… and now for numbers 4 and 5.
Bush holds early Cinco de Mayo celebration [cnn, 2005.05.05]President Bush said he likes to use the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo to practice his Spanish, but this year he’s practicing his arithmetic.
Bush poked fun at himself in front of about 200 people gathered in the Rose Garden for the White House celebration on May 4, one day before the holiday marking the Mexican troops’ defeat of a French army on May 5, 1862.
“My only problem this year is I scheduled the dinner on cuatro de mayo,” Bush said. “Next year I’m going to have to work on my math.”