US - AQ mastermind of London bombings dead

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"Spend five minutes on the Times piece, though, as it includes some unusual passages about the degradation of AQ’s capabilities over the last six years. It’s an article of absolute faith among most of the media that they’re as strong as they’re ever been post-9/11 and are only getting stronger; the fact that the chief of external operations was allegedly reduced to personally training recruits in the art of bombmaking suggests otherwise."