Abu Abbas has been captured in Iraq. Yoiks and Hazzah!
I hope that I am not the only one to be mildly surprised and then underwhelmed at this matter. Perhaps we have all grown measurably more hardened to the realities of terrorism since the days of the Achille Lauro. Somehow I doubt that Abbas is anywhere near public enemy number one. He didn't make the PKC 55, so what are we to make of his arrest?
NPR reported this morning that he was rumored to be passing money from Saddam Hussein to suicide bombers in Palestine. But his whereabouts and activities have been known to the US for some time.
Abbas will be extradicted in all likelihood to Italy where he faces a life sentence. Charges against him in the US were dropped some years ago, as part of a deal in the Israeli-Palestine peace process.
The world is a tiny bit safer today, but we can do better than this.