Wait a minute, there -- I thought that al-Qaeda only operated from Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan. Those who get their news from the mainstream media and the Democrats are under the illusion that al-Qaeda is a local phenomenon, not a beast with tentacles running from Africa to Europe to the Phillippines.

Not only has the US liberated Iraq and Afghanistan but we are also liberating Somalia. Yes, there is work to be done, and we're fighting a tenacious enemy, but al-Qaeda is a world threat that is much greater than Osama bin Laden, who quite likely assumed room temperature several years ago at Tora Bora.

I'm sure that this news will be all over the front pages tomorrow -- when pigs fly.

Will Chrissy Matthews, who called Rush Limbaugh listeners "manipulable," talk about it? Don't hold your breath. Military success against radical Islam clashes with Prissy Chrissy's world view, so he sticks with his fantasy world rather than reality.

From UPI:

MOGADISHU, Somalia, May 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. air strike in Somalia Thursday killed an al-Qaida leader in East Africa who also was a leader in the Islamist revival in Somalia, Somali officials said.

The air strike targeted Aden Hashi Ayro, a leader of al-Shabab, an Islamist militia the United States considers a terrorist organization, CNN reported.

U.S. military officials said the Somali government permitted them to attack terrorist suspects on Somali soil, The New York Times reported. U.S. officials accused Ayro of protecting wanted al-Qaida members, including some thought to have planned the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

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"This will definitely weaken the Shabab," said Mohamed Aden, consul at the Somali embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. "This will help with reconciliation. You can't imagine how many Somalis are saying yes, this is the one. The reaction is so good."