OK, AFP too. But still.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The bodies from a missile strike that killed several militants [next post down] have been buried and it was impossible to confirm or refute if a top Al-Qaeda operative was among them, the army said Friday.
Right. Impossible. But...
...a Western official said there were "very strong indications" that he had been slain.
OK then. Very strong. The demise of the "operative" ("senior commander," says the Times) was reported by an Islamist website - which, by the way, seems to have been pretty happy about the whole thing.
An announcement on the Al-Fajr Information Centre website on Thursday said that "we announce the good news to the Islamic world: Sheikh Abu Laith al-Qassimi al-Libi has fallen a martyr on the soil of Muslim Pakistan."
Meanwhile Major General Athar Abbas of the Pakistani army, which has no idea (wink wink) where those missiles came from, they were just flying around up there and then they came down or something, says...
"We cannot negate nor confirm because the moment it happened, they removed the bodies and buried them. So, how would anybody confirm who got killed?"
How indeed.
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