Top Al Qaeda opperative caught in Pakistan.

[Shi Huangdi]

Looks like he is going to Cuba!

[KrazyHorse]

They look almost identical. I'd easily be able to pick the guy out of a lineup.

[DanS]

Good show!

[Drake Tungsten]

Jesus! This is the biggest capture yet in the war on terror and you guys just ignore it? The level of debate on Poly has really gone downhill...

Help the Japanese! Stop Japan's 490% Tarriff on rice!

True dat. I'm going to be paying out the ass for rice in about 6 months...

[MichaeltheGreat]

This is one that will never make it to Cuba. Binalshibh ain't there yet, is he?

First, if they ever stop having use for him, there's an existing indictment, plus he gave enough away on that dumbass interview to fry him in any of the three Federal districts where he could be tried on 9-11 related capital offenses.

He'll be interrogated for as long as he has useful information, then eventually, assuming he's still around, he'll wind up where McVeigh did, in more ways than one.

You'd think these higher level *******s would have the sense not to be taken alive, though.

[Drake Tungsten]

I heard they're sending this guy to Virginia. Gitmo is just for the small fry...

What I've been wondering is why the authorities announced this capture so soon. Wouldn't it have been better to interrogate this bastard first and see if he knows where bin Laden is? Maybe they thought they couldn't keep this capture under wraps, but it doesn't seem like a good move to me...

[MichaeltheGreat]

They can't keep anything under wraps in Pakistan. They can't even control their own government, which still has Taleban and al Qaeda sympathizers (or members) in the police, military and intelligence services.

A little over a week ago, a Pakistani air force pilot deliberately shot down a Pakistani chartered airplane carrying the Afghani Minister of Mines and Industry, four other Afghani officials, a US (Afghan-American) civil engineer who was a volunteer adviser to the Afghani government, and two other people, plus a two-man aircrew.

That detail didn't make the US press, (it officially was a "crash" shortly after takeoff with no explanation given)

75 Pakistani militia who were trained al Qaeda operatives is also one of those things that doesn't get a lot of coverage.

There's a few things with Daniel Pearl's murder that stink, including some indication that some people in the Pakistani government knew where he was before he was killed.

I'm sure they announced it because they figured all the bad guys knew instantly, so they may as well get some positive credit.

I'd be surprised if Mohammad went to Virginia (at least, until after all the interrogation is finished.) On US soil, there are definite rules. Before he gets there, there really aren't.

[KrazyHorse]

Gitmo is just for the people they don't have a case against. That's why they can send him to the States.

[DinoDoc]

Who gets the reward in cases like this? ISI?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
You'd think these higher level *******s would have the sense not to be taken alive, though.

Some how the higher ups never seem to have the balls to die for the cause. The much prefer sending their fellow fanatics to die instead.

[DinoDoc]

Bump.

[faded glory]

why the **** is this site so slow lately.


Anyway. Ya we got that loser. OBL is next. Weve got all 3 of his top buddies.

Word has it, a pakistani was watching America's Most wanted

[Dinner]

CNN has written another article this time with more info. Apparently one of the other two men arrested with Khalid is named Mohammed Qadoos who is an Arab immigrant to Pakistan and a high ranking member of Pakistan's largest religious political party, Jamaat Islami. This seems to confirm people's suspisions that Pakistan's Islamic parties are in bed with Islamic militants.

CNN also reports that Khalid has been taken out of Pakistan but they don't say to where but U.S. government officials said there were no plans at this point to take him to the United States (my money is on Gitmo). The arrest in Pakistan was a CIA-led operation, according to a senior U.S. official who said the operation was "ongoing."

Khalid was almost caught one week ago during a raid in the Pakistani city of Quetta but he escaped during the gun fight and left several off his associates behind to be captured. The police learned of the Al Qaeda safe house in Rawalpindi, where Khalid was caught yesterday, by questioning several of the captives caught in the Quetta raid.

Here's the rest of the article

[Dinner]

The white house issued the following statement today:

STATEMENT
White House reaction to the detention of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed:
"The United States commends Pakistani and U.S. authorities on the completion of a successful joint operation which resulted in the detention of several al Al Qaida operatives, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is one of Usama Bin Laden 's most senior and significant lieutenants, a key Al Qaida planner and the mastermind of the September 11th attacks. He is known to have been centrally involved in plotting by Al Qaida terrorists since September 11th, 2001--including plots to launch attacks within the United States.
"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists, and has been under U.S. indictment since 1996 for the Manila air conspiracy, a plot to bomb a series of U.S. civilian airliners."

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Next up: Mullah Omar

by questioning several of the captives caught in the Quetta raid.

I'm sure that this type of 'questioning' didnt envolve coffee and donuts.