Pakistan Source Under Cover When U.S. Confirmed Name

Myway News ^ | Aug 6, 6:54 PM (ET) | Simon Cameron-Moore and Peter Graff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Oh this is getting real interesting now, I think I am right!

Just looked at this mornings story in the LA Times , which is lengthy , titled:

U.S. Accuses British Man of Terrorist Conspiracy. Prosecutors seeking extradition say he had classified data on a Navy group's mission.

Babar Ahmad, a 30 year-old college employee arrested by British authorities Thursday was described as a cousin of suspected Al Queda member Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan -- whose recent arrest in Pakistan triggered a spate of terrorism alerts last weekend in New York, new jersey and Washington.

And Pakistan says Khan is an agent????

I don't think so!!!!!

[pawdoggie]

The Brits have also been critical of us for releasing too much information about captured terrorists, and their associated equipment and documents. We all know that the Administration is in a tight spot: media scrutiny of every mistake, bogus claims that we're "losing" the WOT. But sometimes you have to measure the short term political gain of publicizing a big capture against the potential for future damage to our enemies if the information is withheld (and acted upon later). Are we going to kill the goose that could continue to lay "golden eggs" of intel down the road?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More to the story:

U.S. Accuses British Man of Terrorist Conspiracy (Had plans of classified Naval group movements )

In this story we have this:

Babar Ahmad, a 30-year-old college employee arrested by British authorities Thursday, was described as a cousin of suspected Al Qaeda member Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan — whose recent arrest in Pakistan triggered a spate of terrorism alerts last weekend in New York, New Jersey and Washington.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See the latest notes here and the link.

[snopercod]

You can see the problem here. The U.S. goverment couldn't inform Pakistan that we had a mole there and to leave him alone, because the Paks are pretty much on the wrong side of this war. Khan would have wound up dead.

So at the urging of the U.S. to "get tough on the terrorists", the Paks arrested our guy - by pure luck, no doubt.

Then we had to tell them he was one of ours. No doubt in my mind that it was the Paks who called the NYT.

[TruthNtegrity]

BTTT

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

One of our guys?

That would be a feather in Bushes cap...

No wonder this is so confusing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wait a minute, the LA Times is saying that Khan is a cousin of Babar Ahmad who is a definite bad guy!