The stock market just went below 8000. Likely that means that oil will easily slice through $50@barrel.

Taliban gets their money from drugs. But AQ likely gets a lot of their money from surplus oil money.

US Preditors went deep into Pakistan to get Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, a senior member of Osama bin Laden’s terror network.

He was not in the tribal belt alongside Afghanistan but rather he was in the middle of country — almost halfway to Kashmir.

According to the article:

Sources in the Taliban said al-Saudi was also a member of Taliban’s supreme council, or Shura, under its fugitive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar when it moved from Afghanistan to the Pakistani side of the border about a year ago.

“He was closely linked to Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri,” a Taliban source added.

Following the strike, al-Zawahiri warned US president-elect Barack Obama against sending more troops to Afghanistan saying that US policy was “doomed to failure” in an Internet audio message.

A security official said the US missile strike was carried out on intelligence that al-Saudi was in a house belonging to a tribesman in the Bannu district, which borders restive North Waziristan.

It was the first alleged US missile strike outside the tribal region which is described by the United States as home to Al-Qaeda’s command and control structure.