A little good news from the war on terror. The AP reports that a relative of Osama bin Laden was killed in Madagascar yesterday in what family members are calling a burglary. The victim, Jamal Khalifa, was wanted in the Philippines “for alleged terror financing,” was named by the U.S. government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and was married to one of bin Laden’s sisters. According to Khalifa’s brother, more than 25 armed men broke into the house, killed Khalifa while he was sleeping, and stole everything that wasn’t nailed down, including computers. Sounds suspiciously like a successful counterterror operation, but if not, it’s still nice to see bad things happen to bad people. You can read more about Khalifa here.
