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Charles Johnson links to this report from ABC News which quotes Pakistani military sources as saying that Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been killed in an apparent US airstrike.
The attack took place early this morning Pakistan time in a small village a few miles from the border with Afghanistan.I hope that this is this weekend's big story. But I want to see his mangled corpse before I start cheering.
Villagers described seeing an unmanned plane circling the area for the last few days and then bombs falling in the early morning darkness.
Eighteen people were killed, according to the villagers who said women and children were among the fatalities.
But Pakistani officials tell ABC News that five of those killed were high-level al Qaeda figures, and their bodies are now undergoing forensic tests for positive identification.