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Yahoo! News - Pakistan: al-Qaida Official Hurt, Hiding

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A senior al-Qaida leader has been seriously wounded and is on the run, Pakistan's military spokesman said Saturday, while claiming that an operation to rid the western border areas of suspected terrorists has been a success.

Of course it has. We believe this. Why shouldn't we? After all, the Pakistani authority has been so reliable up to this point. *coff coff*

And just who is the senior al Qaida Official? Is it bin Laden? Al-Zawahri?

Recently gathered intelligence and eyewitness accounts indicate that al-Qaida commander Tahir Yuldash was badly wounded and is in hiding, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said. He admitted, though, that Pakistani forces are not close to capturing Yuldash.

"He might have slipped away, he's on the run," Sultan said.

Who?

Yuldash, also known as Tahir Yuldashev, is the leader of an Uzbek terror group — Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ...

Wait, didn't they just say that he was al Qaida? Let me check back.

A senior al-Qaida leader has been seriously wounded and is on the run, Pakistan's military spokesman said Saturday

That's what I thought they said. Oh, wait, there's more to that last paragraph.

Yuldash, also known as Tahir Yuldashev, is the leader of an Uzbek terror group — Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan — which Pakistani officials say has been subsumed by al-Qaida since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

Ahh, I see.

Kudos Pakistan on almost getting a terrorist we never heard of in a group that probably doesn't mean too much anyway, but which you claim is now part of al Qaida. Keep up the good work. At least until George is ready for the big unveil in October.