Authorities predicted the actions would weaken the local off-shoot of the terror network, arguing that support for the group had waned and replacing the leadership would be difficult.
VOA: standard.2010.05.10
It's an ugly turn of events for Blankenship, a brilliant, gutsy operator with an unfortunate tendency to shootoff his mouth.
Until very recently they seemed to have great difficulty in resisting the equally natural temptation to shootoff their new weapons, and every day sounded like the Fourth of July, but the F.