Two reports say the dead include Al Qaeda’s top man in Pakistan, Abu Firas al Masri.

The fighting culminates two straight weeks of attacks on Haqqani network targets that have been steadily increasing all year, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, to levels previously unseen.

Preperation For The “Winter Offensive” ?

Coalition targets include training facilities, command and control as well as leaders of all rank within the Haqqani command structure. Below are reported operations conducted over the past 14 days involving the Haqqani network:

Afghanistan

September 5 - Multiple operations are launched across Khowst Province targeting members of the Haqqani terrorist network. The coalition says a total of four militants were captured, including one known longtime leader within the network

September 6 - Coalition forces killed ten militants and captured three others Khowst Province during an operation targeting members of the Haqqani terrorist network. In a press release [.

of course this means that George W Bush is doing a bad job of managing the war on terror - he's actually killing terrorist instead of reaching out to them in an open and communicative manner (dare we say in community organizer mode?) in order to find common ground in settling our differences in a peaceful manner.