A couple of good news items today from the war on terror.<\/p>\n
French police have apparently captured the man believed responsible<\/a> for the daytime knife attack on a French soldier in the La D\u00e9fense shopping mall\/transportation center west of Paris last week. \u00a0The man captured is 21 years old and has been identified only as \u201cAlexander D\u201d.<\/p>\n In case anyone was wondering:\u00a0 yes, the arrested man is an adherent of Islam\u00a0 – French authorities characterized him as a recent convert.\u00a0 The Paris public prosecutor has indicated that investigators believe he \u201cacted in the name of his religious ideology\u201d while committing the crime.\u00a0\u00a0 The suspect apparently first came to French authorities\u2019 attention in 2009, and was believed to have \u201cbecome more radical\u201d roughly 3 months ago.<\/p>\n In other news, Pakistani authorities have reported that at least four senior Pakistani Taliban militants were killed by a \u201cUS drone strike\u201d in the North Waziristan region.\u00a0 One of the dead was reportedly Wali-ur-Rehman, deputy head of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)<\/a>.\u00a0 Rehman was the TTP\u2019s most senior military commander and is believed to have been the primary planner and coordinator of their military operations during the past several years.<\/p>\n Rehman\u2019s demise is not yet confirmed.\u00a0 TTP has denied that Rehman was killed, but has admitted other militants were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n Rehman has a long history of coordinating attacks in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. \u00a0\u00a0He is believed to have masterminded the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed 50 as well as a 2009 attack on a US base in Khost that killed 7 US personnel.\u00a0 The Pakistani government \u00a0has offered a bounty on Rehman since 2009.<\/p>\n May Rehman already be acting as Shay\u2019tan\u2019s personal sex-slave, and may he continue to do so for \u00a0eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"