Posted on 03/07/2010 9:39:42 AM PST by milwguy
Edited on 03/07/2010 2:58:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
KARACHI: Pakistani security forces along with help of US intelligence arrested Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al- Adam, who is a close associate of Osama Bin Laden. Abu Yahya was arrested on Sunday from an area surrounding the super highway, on the outskirts of Karachi.
Sources confirmed that the arrested militant commander has been shifted to Islamabad for further investigation.
Pennsylvania-born Abu Yahya is a US citizen and assumed to be a commander of foreign militants fighting in Afghanistan against the US. His name is included in the top ten wanted on the CIA list.
American Qaeda Operative Arrested in Pakistan
"..ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An American Qaeda operative was arrested in the sprawling southern city of Karachi in recent days by Pakistani security officials, Pakistani officials said Sunday.
American and Pakistani officials said the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who was described as having been born in Pennsylvania and who was thought to be affiliated with the operations division of Al Qaeda, commanding fighters in Afghanistan.
Little else was known about him, American officials said, and it was not immediately clear that American officials were involved in the arrest.
Initial reports seemed to have confused the American with Adam Gadahn, a California native who has been a spokesman for Al Qaeda and often appears on videos calling for strikes against targets in the United States. .."
Ooops, meant McVeigh. Mike, nice to see you around again.
Cheers!
BUMP! BUMP!
So, they got a message from Eric Holder to treat Gadahn with kid gloves and read him his Constitutional rights.
Then (those smart Pakis) —they decide it’s not Adam Gadahn after all.
Whichever American it is, I’m with M Kehoe on this. If we aren’t interrogating him, intensely, it’s a shame he didn’t die in the field. And as American “citizens”, if they enter any judicial system, I hope they never see the sunlight again. There was a rationale behing public hangings.
GRRRRREAT to see you on this thread, Jeff!
It MAY be Adam Gadahn, but there is no US official confirmation. It could be like those Al Zawahiri Snipe Hunts of a few years ago.
Exactly what you say is true. 0bama has showered PakiLand with billions in stimulus dollars which has stimulated them to catch some big fish in Al Qaeda that they could have always captured
Maybe they’ll go get us Bin Ladin for 10 billion and half that will line the pockets of the ruling clique
I can't believe you would accuse Obummer's aid agency of such corruption, in a transparent and upright country like Pakistan, just 'cause they've done much the same here in America:
USAID Steers No-Bid Haiti Contract to 'Politically Connected' Firm of Bill Clinton Friend
February 16, 2010
By James Rosen - FOXNews.com
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded another lucrative no-bid contract, Fox News has learned -- this time to a "politically connected" lobbyist and high-profile friend of former President Bill Clinton.This marks the second no-bid contract the agency has been found to have awarded since the start of the year, despite a long history of vows by President Obama to crack down on the practice. The first, awarded on Jan. 4 and worth nearly $25 million, was steered to a firm owned by a donor to the Obama presidential campaign, for legal work in Afghanistan. The cancellation of that contract was announced by the State Department shortly after Fox News reported its existence on Jan. 25.
USAID's latest no-bid contract, worth close to $100,000, was awarded on Jan. 18 to the GlobalOptions Group for work in earthquake-stricken Haiti, where Clinton is the U.N. special envoy and is helping to lead private fundraising efforts.
Described as an "integrated risk management" firm, GlobalOptions is headquartered in Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza and boasts 10 offices across the U.S. The GlobalOptions subsidiary that executed the contract is James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA), the "emergency preparedness and management" consulting firm founded by the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under President Clinton.
While heading up JLWA, Witt is also a registered lobbyist, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Among his clients are the city of Little Rock, Ark., and its airport commission, from which JLWA received at least $120,000 last year; Allstate; and telecommunications giant Sprint Nextel.
Witt and Clinton go back more than two decades. As governor of Arkansas in 1988, Clinton first tapped Witt, then a county judge, to serve as chief of the state's emergency preparedness agency. JLWA's two vice chairmen are retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, who served as Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe during the Clinton presidency, and Rodney Slater, the secretary of transportation under President Clinton. On Feb. 5, during his most recent trip to Haiti, the former president was photographed at the Port-au-Prince airport standing beside Andrew Sachs and Mark Merritt, two JLWA executives.
According to documentation prepared this year for the Federal Procurement Data System and obtained by Fox News, the USAID contract called for GlobalOptions to receive $99,725 to perform 11 days' worth of work in Haiti. An Excel spreadsheet listing federal contracts awarded in connection with the quake states that GlobalOptions was to provide USAID by Jan. 30 with an "initial assessment report" on the American response and recovery effort, along with an "in-country advance team" whose duties were unspecified.
The document further states that the contract was awarded under "full and open competition after exclusion of sources," a phrase one high-ranking former USAID official told Fox News was a euphemism for a no-bid contract. A congressional source characterized the phrase, and this contract, as equivalent to: "We're going to have a full and open competition in which we write the details only to fit you."
For eight months prior to the earthquake, JLWA personnel were already in Haiti, working on disaster preparedness programs aimed at educating Haitian women. In published reports the company alternately said its pre-quake work in Haiti was taking place "under a United Nations special envoy" and was "tied to the Clinton Global Initiative" (CGI). Former President Clinton was appointed the U.N. special envoy for Haiti in May 2009. CGI is the non-partisan group the former president established in 2005 to "help turn ideas into action," as its Web site states.
According to the Web site, CGI "does not provide funding directly to our member's (sic) commitments," but instead "acts as a marketplace that matches ideas, resources, and knowledge" and "facilitates effective partnerships." This could well have been the role played by CGI in this case. Although no evidence has surfaced suggesting that former President Clinton personally intervened to help JLWA secure any federal contracts, Rep. Mark Kirk, the Illinois Republican who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, has written to USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah requesting more details on how the Jan. 18 contract came to be awarded to a "politically-connected" firm "lacking decades of experience in the field."
"While recognizing the need for cooperation with the private sector in rebuilding Haiti, I am nevertheless concerned that the selection process may not have met USAID's rigorous partnering guidelines," Kirk wrote in the Feb. 16 letter, obtained by Fox News. "We know of over half a dozen recognized relief organizations with extensive experience in Haiti. Both JLWA and GlobalOptions do not fit that level of experience or expertise. ... I ask you to provide full details of ... the relevant USAID guidelines that were used to exclude more experienced non-governmental relief organizations in favor of the more politically-connected JLWA to assist in Haiti relief efforts."
Neither USAID nor CGI responded to requests for comment.
I wish we would try him in Afghanistan and execute him there!
“Would somebody please post a positive report on American born Muslims or on Muslims in general?”
I suggest you hold your breath. /s
“Quick and dirty interrogation...”
Take us to your leader...Tomahawk time.
Afternoon sir..one check off the list....2 more to even the score.
As you know, methinks it's "one," more to even the score.
;^)
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I don't know who's custody the terrorist is in, but I hope he is in Jordanian custody. That way, we might get some intel, and Yahya might lose some fingers.
Just say'n.
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“I know a few within our own government that should be charged as well!”
Ya, sure - so name names /s
I suspect the taxpayer will pay, but perhaps not. I’m not positive how that works.
LOL or perhaps the religion czar.
Pakistan is a large country with many urban areas.
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