What the hell?

[BlueStater]

"In a video broadcast Monday, al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be al-Qaida's next targets and he called on Muslims to step up their resistance against the United States. He accused the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia of supporting Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060911/ap_on_re_eu/sept11_world_remembers

How many times has this guy been arrested or killed so far?

[SteppingRazor]

1. I can't recall any report of his being arrested or killed...

although, I've read plenty of reports of No. 3 men being killed. Al-Qaeda seems to go through them like Kleenex.

[BlueStater]

6. Are their numbers plastered on their smocks or something? n/t

[SteppingRazor]

8. Yeah, they're sort of like the playing cards in Alice in Wonderland n/t

[peacetalksforall]

12. I knew something was wrong when they found Atta's passport

on the ground at WTC and when they came out with the 52 card deck and delighted in their genius.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Obviously not enough times.

[Benhurst]

5. In that area of the world,

there's a long tradition of people coming back to life.

[Glorfindel]

3. 39, I believe, at last count....

al-Qaida seems to have a never-ending supply of second bananas. :rofl:

[marmar]

9. At least...

The Papermate factory doesn't have that many No. 2s.

[arcane1]

4. al-Qaida has more number-two's than a porta-potty at Burning Man

:eyes:

[jimshoes]

7. You're thinking of Zarkawi

who we killed five or six times. Zawahri is the new bogeyman.

[Kutjara]

10. It's a little-known fact that Al Qaeda...

...spends most of its money on cloning and cybernetics technology. Consequently, they have thousands of Zawahiris quietly gestating in underground tanks somewhere in the Tora Bora caves. Everytime a Zawahiri is captured or killed, they decant another one, top up his memories from the databanks and he's good to go.

[Igel]

11. None.

It's easy to confuse "AQ" the movement (with no #2s), AQ in the Land of the Two Rivers (i.e., Mesopotamia; with numerous #2s), and AQ HQ (with one #2 since the late '90s).

The media makes no effort to disambiguate them.