Senior Al Qaeda commander killed in Pakistan

Updated from Thursday, when it was reported that five militants were killed in a mud hut somewhere in the Northen regions of Pakistan by an explosion.

President Pervez Musharraf said today that An al Qaeda commander ranked among the top five in Osama bin Laden's network was killed. Abu Hamza Rabia,credited with heading al Qaeda's international operations, was among five militants killed in an explosion at a house where they were hiding in North Waziristan on Thursday.
While officials said the blast was caused by explosives stored in the house for bomb-making, residents said a helicopter fired rockets into the house at a village near Mir Ali in the tribal agency.

Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed denied Rabia was killed during a military operation. "He's head of the international operations of al Qaeda. He was very important in al Qaeda. He was maybe Number Three or Five,"

So I guess the smoking joke from the original post doesn't apply anymore. Thanks a lot al-Qaeda for ruining a good joke. DAMN YOU!!

Here's a post to the original story which I now realize was during the time I was living a fucking lie.