Posted on 03/07/2010 2:31:10 PM PST by Sub-Driver
U.S.-Born al Qaeda Arrest News Found False Detained Taliban Militant's Identify Verified, Ending Confusion Over Reports of Adam Gadahn's Detention in Pakistan
(CBS) An "important Taliban militant" was arrested today in Pakistan. But that is where the confusion started.
Earlier it was reported by Pakistani media that intelligence agents had arrested Adam Gadahn, the American-born spokesman for al Qaeda, in an operation in the southern city of Karachi.
It was further reported by the Associated Press and Reuters that Gadahn had been arrested, sourcing security officials.
CBS News was told by sources in the Pakistan government that it was Gadahn, even after U.S. officials refused to confirm it was the California native for whom a $1 million reward has been posted.
Now, CBS News' Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad writes that earlier reports the detained individual was Gadahn proved false. According to a Pakistan security official who spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity, the arrested individual is in fact "a Taliban militant leader who is known as Abu Yahya."
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Hmmm....
Bummer
FBI Says U.S. Hasn’t Confirmed Arrest of Adam Gadahn (Update1)
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By Jesse Westbrook and Dan Hart
March 7 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. hasn’t confirmed the arrest of Adam Gadahn, the U.S.-born spokesman for the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman William Carter said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aPHSKsrZLEeo
Now of course you have to wonder if they squirreled him away to pump him dry of information.
Hmmmm...
With THIS group in power???
Jack Bauer is “talking” to him, even as we speak...
Interrogate him and then execute him. Never confirm you ever had him. It’s the game a president should be playing in this political climate. Unfortunately, the president is you know who.
I'll go first.
Obama does not want the headache that the American Taliiban would give him. If Pakistan does have him, they can extract all the information they need and Obama does not have to make a decision on what to do with him.
The first thread here said it was Yahya. Then the goat boy. I was hopin’ it was either him, or both.
Oh shi’ite!
Reminds me of Roswell.
“Then the goat boy.”
Maybe they captured Giles...
“Now of course you have to wonder if they squirreled him away to pump him dry of information.”
Nah...if they were that smart they wouldn’t tell anyone they had him.
or he'll be just disappeared - save a million bucks
Ping
The New York Times, sourcing American and Pakistani officials, reports that the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, and describes him as an al Qaeda commander who was born in Pennsylvania.
Bullshit.
It’s a cover up. How could the ISI mistake someone else for him, he is unique over there on the battlefield.
Western diplomats in Islamabad, responding to the latest twist to this increasingly confusing saga, said the arrest is not insignificant. "Even if this is not Adam Gadahn, it is still not an unimportant development. But let's hold our breath before we come to a final conclusion. We may be groping in the dark 'til someone, especially the Pakistanis who are holding this man, agree to present him publicly," said one western diplomat in Islamabad who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity.
I love it when we talk dirty.
Some rich arab paid big bucks to let him slip away.
No. I’m not going to hold my breath that long. I need the oxygen.
And anyone who gropes in the dark in Pakistan is just plain nuts . . .
If they have him...it makes no sense to tell the world before they can exploit him for intel.
I wondered if that was the issue .. it seemed unusual that both of these AQ people would be caught at the same time in different places.
It appears we have only one captured person - and it’s not Adam. Too bad .. he would have been a good capture .. being a liberal he would have squeeled his head off and told us a lot of great info.
Maybe the other guy will too .. but I have less confidence in him revealing very much.
“Now of course you have to wonder if they squirreled him away to pump him dry of information.”
Exactly. Would we really want the world to know in real-time that we have this guy? I think not. Let the smokescreen continue.....
You sure..
This update just posted over at Hot Air.
Update: CNN at 6 pm ET reports that a “senior Pakistani government official” insists it’s Gadahn.
Confusion works.
I’m not surprised.
Um. We have a guy in charge that makes Jimmy Carter look like the genius the media claimed him to be. What’s to be confused about?
Dollars to donuts they have him but Obama is smart enough to realize what to do with him is a serious question conpounding an already confusing ever changing adminstration position on what to do with the current crop of vermin
This tratior is probably acting like a clam thinking he has leverage knowing the left in this country will scream bloody murder if he is mistreated
Bet you million bucks when he figuires out the battery cables attached to his maleness are real and tapped into the current he will know Obama has sold his muzzie brother and the left out
Uhngh
Easy mistake to make. All you white Jihadists look the same.
There’s no telling what’s going on with this administration or with the news media.
Yeah, maybe that malfunctional “elite intelligence gathering” unit will sing him Barny songs until he cracks...IF they can find their way out of EUrope.
Hey look at the bright side: It’s more thing the Marxist quisling ba$tard at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue won’t be able to take credit for.
Bush's Fault!
Yahya, I am too......
I bet they got him, but they know it will create a political problem for Obama if they have him and are not going to extradite him back to the states.
If it's really Goat Boy, who leaked the info and why? And did the good guys get him, or did AQ cough him up? Could we, God forbid, have done a deal for him because Barry needed a big get? Or could Goat Boy just have outlived his usefulness? Or could the Pakastanis just have screwed up big-time and now have egg on their faces?
bttt
Either that or Obama didn't want to deal with another sticky issue with trials, courts, etc. with a citizen... so he ordered him released quietly.
Fog of war.
They are busy reading him his rights!
I love that.....and, yes, Mr President, we do miss you.
Except during the Bush administration. Then it's a lie. /s
Adam Gadahn isn’t Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam — but we wouldn’t have to worry about this if both of them had been shot.
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