Um, you're wrong

The Guardian UK's "analysis" of the US strike aimed at Ayman al-Zawahiri leaves something to be desired, in my humble opinion. I couldn't get past the lede without calling "BS" on the entire piece:

The attack was precise, the intelligence was flawed, and the strained relation between Pakistan and the US has been pushed to breaking point[.]

The intelligence was flawed? Why? Because Zawahiri decided to decline the dinner invitation at the last minute?

In the meantime, upwards of 4 or 5 terrorists are dead in the attack. From ABC: Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, was identified by Pakistani authorities as one of three known al Qaeda leaders present at an apparent terror summit conference in the village of Damadola.

The United States had posted a $5 million reward for Mursi's capture. He is described by U.S. authorities as the man who ran al Qaeda's infamous Derunta training camp in Afghanistan, where he used dogs and other animals as subjects of experiments with poison and chemicals.
"This is extraordinarily important," said former FBI agent Jack Cloonan, an ABC News consultant, who was the senior agent on the FBI's al Qaeda squad. "He's the man who trained the shoe bomber, Richard Reid and Zacharias Mousssaoui, as well as hundreds of others."

And from AP: One of the dead was said to be Abdul Rehman Al-Misri al Maghribi, a son-in-law of al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri. Maghribi was responsible for al Qaeda's media department.

Another was Midhat Mursi al-Sayid 'Umar, an expert in explosives and poisons who carried a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head under the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Rewards for Justice program...

The third man identified was Abu Obaidah al Misri, al Qaeda's chief of operations in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, where U.S. and Afghan forces regularly come under attack from militant groups.

The very fact that known al-Qaeda operatives of such importance were present easily refutes that ridiculous Guardian lede.