"It seems like Americans who were lecturing us on using Afghanis as pawns and working with known militant groups, are not above working with terrorists and bombers themselves."
Let's be clear here that nobody was working with a known terrorist group. Nor is it appropriate to equate attacking Zawahiri with attacking afghan civilians. What occurred-ostensibly "
turning" an enemy agent of A.Q. and using him as a resource to attack Zawahiri is exactly what I'd expect my government's intelligence officials to be attempting.
A.Q. simply played their hand one step better here. If this account is true, though, then there's a high liklihood that those C.I.A. agents and others were standing before a man who DID know where Zawahiri was located...
...moments before detonating himself and them.
Zawahiri is that close and...evidently inside Pakistan.
I don't see a thing that was illegal about this operation. I see every reason to be impressed with A.Q.'s counter-intelligence. This is a very high stakes and lethal espionage war fought in those reaches of the border.
Thanks.