Another One Bites the Dust

Good news from Saudi Arabia:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Security forces killed al-Qaida's leader in Saudi Arabia, who topped the nation's list of most-wanted militants, during a fierce gunbattle Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.

Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, a Moroccan, was killed during a dawn raid by security forces on an area in the capital where suspected militants were hiding, the official was quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency as saying.

Three other unidentified suspects were arrested, and weapons, ammunition, computers and documents were seized, he said.

Make no mistake about it, killing any one of these guys - including bin Laden - isn't going to end the take-over-the-world jihad. There will always be another miscreant waiting to move up. Only killing every one of them would bring an end to the global Islamic fundamentalist terror campaign.

But, every "big wheel" taken out of circulation disrupts things and makes it more difficult for them to plan and execute mass murder on a grand scale. Even more importantly, the information captured in most of these high-level strikes is invaluable. Almost invariably, documents, computers and disks, and close associates are grabbed up when one of these guys is killed or captured. And that's worth alot more than any one individual member.