We got Zarqawi's laptop!

MSNBC has the story here.

My review: mixed. It's great that we got the laptop and the driver. And the intelligence in it is no doubt super. Or was. Because intelligence is perishable. And the fact that we are now publicly acknowledging that yes, we do have his laptop tells me that we pretty much exhausted all the intelligence we could find thereon. And we still don't have Zarqawi.

But there's no doubt that his operations were impeded by the loss. All of a sudden, he can't use any safe houses or contacts that may have been on his laptop. Plus, we may well have been able to take out some of his sources of funding as a result of the find. The telephone numbers strike me as especially valuable. Because we can run up 1-900 charges on those numbers and Zarqawi's organisation will get stuck with the bill.

Zarqawi also has to worry about his driver turning on him for a cool $25 million. Hey, I'd think about making the deal.

I wonder how it is we zeroed in on that car?

Splash, out

Jason