In two operations in Africa nearly 3,000 miles apart, U.S. military forces went after two high-value targets over the weekend.
One operation took place early Saturday in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, when members of the elite U.S. Army Delta Force captured Abu Anas al Libi, an al Qaeda operative wanted for his alleged role in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
In the second raid, a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in southern Somalia targeted a foreign fighter commander for Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group linked with al Qaeda, according to a senior Obama administration official.
(CNN, October 6, 2013)
Great! Two down, 2002 high-value targets to go.
Alas, at this rate, the government will have to be shut down for a quarter century just to get them. Moreover, we all know that the capture of each high-value target spawns at least two more … high-value targets to capture. And so it goes….