ZAWAHIRI DEAD?….CNN and ABC are both reporting that al-Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri and several other high-ranking al-Qaeda figures may have been killed in a CIA airstrike on a building in Damadola, a Pakistani village near the Afghan border. No confirmation yet, but if it’s true it would certainly be a ray of sunshine in an otherwise dreary news week.

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