American al-Qaeda leaders killed in U.S. counterterror strikes
... and misread it as follows:
American al-Qaeda leaders killed in U.S. COUNTERTENOR strikes
Actually, I think we should try it. Take three of the free world's finest countertenors (i.e., adult male altos) and turn them loose on an Al Qaeda cell...
AFTERWORD: Well, that turned out not only to be not humorous, but actually to be tragic: apparently the drone also killed two additional people at the site, one of them American, neither of them Al Qaeda. My thoughts are with the families. And despite my initial joking, I find the entire episode, as now revealed, anything but funny. [/sigh]
UPDATE: Obama apologizes for the American drone strike which killed "[a]n American aid worker and another man held hostage by Al Qaeda". Apparently the CIA had no intelligence (there's a temptation to end the sentence right there) indicating these hostages were present, and thus went forward with the strike.
OMG! Steve, I think you've got a Handel on it. :-)
ReplyDeleteMichael, see my afterword...
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