{"id":5989,"date":"2005-12-03T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2005-12-03T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T15:54:01","slug":"a-whole-lot-of-number-three-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-whole-lot-of-number-three-men\/","title":{"rendered":"A whole lot of number-three men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t doubt that Hamza Rabia was a dangerous terrorist, and I have every confidence that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10303175\/\">his death<\/a> marks a significant development in going after al Queda, but really, how many &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10303175\/\">number-three men<\/a>&#8221; can one terrorist network have?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The operational commander of al-Qaida and possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, Hamza Rabia, was killed early Thursday morning by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan, officials told NBC News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2005\/05\/how_many_number.html\">one count<\/a>, Rabia appears to be the sixth &#8220;number-three man&#8221; in al Queda to have been captured or killed since 9\/11, following:<\/p>\n<p>* Abu Faraj al-Libbi<br \/>\n* Saif al-Adel<br \/>\n* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed<br \/>\n* Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed<br \/>\n* [a] senior operational leader, who gave Faris his orders&#8230; identified in court documents as &#8216;C-2&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a whole lot of number three&#8217;s, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t doubt that Hamza Rabia was a dangerous terrorist, and I have every confidence that his death marks a significant development in going after al Queda, but really, how many &#8220;number-three men&#8221; can one terrorist network have? The operational commander of al-Qaida and possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, Hamza Rabia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}