And thus the fantasy-life of Abdul Adheem al-Muhajir reaches its pinnacle; sixteen heavily-armed Americans are captured and executed by brave, brave jihadis armed with nothing more than Soviet-issued can-openers and long-arm staplers. Oh, and by the way, we've also shot down 213, no, no, 313 American planes with slingshots and bottlerockets.

It seems clear to me that the sort of fantasy accounts of heroic military victory that Abdul Adheem al-Muhajir has to construct to validate his continued struggle, to prop up the true believers, is an indication of just how bad things are for the remaining al-Qaida operatives. Later in the interview he's happy to announce that the capture of top al-Qaida poobah Abu Zubaydah weren't nothing but a thang. Read the whole interview and judge for yourself. I think it's looking grim at the al-Qaida home office.

This is not to say that desperate, demoralized men can't carry out horrific act of terrorism against us and our allies. Indeed, it's the cornered rat that's always most dangerous, and thus we should continue our efforts to exterminate these vermin. However, reading the interview, filled with such obviously deluded accounts of events, had the effect of making me feel better about the way things have been going.