A top al Qaeda operative [Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani], one of the world's most wanted men, has been captured in Pakistan and a senior government minister said Friday that the network supporting Osama bin Laden was crumbling.
Reuters article
Sure it is.
Ghailani, who is in his early 30s and goes by the nicknames "Foopie" and "Ahmed the Tanzanian," was indicted in New York in 1998 for the synchronized blasts that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
He reportedly could not drive a car at the time of the bombings, but Ghailani is probably the most senior al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan since the arrest in March 2003 of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
"It is a big achievement for our security forces," Hayat said. The minister said the capture of Ghailani was soley down to Pakistan's security forces, and there was no help from U.S. intelligence.
He reportedly could not drive a car at the time of the bombings, but Ghailani is probably the most senior al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan since the arrest in March 2003 of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
"It is a big achievement for our security forces," Hayat said. The minister said the capture of Ghailani was soley down to Pakistan's security forces, and there was no help from U.S. intelligence.
Too bad they hadn't played up his name a lot more beforehand (and "Foopie" would have been such an easy one to remember). I don't think this is going to make as big a splash as BushCo was hoping for. And, of course, the surprise part is a little deflated since the request for a capture to be "announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July" was leaked early this month.
They've had Foopie for a little bit, so maybe they decided to wait till the day after the convention to announce it so that they could deny that 26-27-28 charge.
But maybe a lot of people didn't get that information. Two of the women in the office were talking a couple days ago about the fuss over Mrs. Kerry's "shove it" remark to a nagging reporter. They had never heard about Cheney telling Senator Leahy to go fuck himself.
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