Posted on 09/15/2002 5:42:00 PM PDT by knak
A SECOND senior aide of Osama bin Laden arrested during last week’s raid on al-Qaeda hideouts in Karachi is being interrogated by American investigators at a secret location in Pakistan.
The revelation came yesterday as the United States said that it was seeking the extradition of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who was captured after a shoot-out last week.
The Pakistani authorities said that the arrest of the two senior al-Qaeda leaders and ten other foreign militants was the most serious blow so far to the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, which has been trying to regroup in Pakistan.
Pakistan has refused to identify the second al-Qaeda figure, but speculation is focused on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of bin Laden’s chief lieutenants, who was interviewed recently in Karachi along with bin al-Shibh by al-Jazeera, the Arab cable television station.
The authorities said that they were awaiting details about the man’s family origins before confirming his identity. Some other reports suggested that the man was a media adviser to bin Laden.
Pakistani authorities said that more arrests were expected based on information obtained from documents seized from the suspects. Several laptop computers and satellite telephones were seized from their hideouts.
“We have captured from bin al-Shibh addresses and other information about other members of al-Qaeda who had taken sanctuary in Karachi. The other raids were made on the basis of that information,” an intelligence source said.
Pakistani officials admitted that a number of Yemenis had been arrested. At least one Yemeni was allegedly involved in the murder of Daniel Pearl, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal. A Yemeni is believed to have cut Mr Pearl’s throat. A senior police source said that a guard at the compound where Mr Pearl had been held identified the man as one of the two Yemenis who killed the journalist. He said that the second suspect could also be among those arrested.
Sheikh Ahmed Saeed Omar, a British-born Islamic militant, was sentenced to death earlier this year by an anti-terrorism court for his role in Mr Pearl’s kidnap and murder.
Bin al-Shibh and other al-Qaeda operatives remained under interrogation by Pakistani and US intelligence agencies, four days after they were captured in a shoot-out in a residential neighbourhood of Karachi. American authorities were primarily responsible for questioning them, but officials said that technically they remained in Pakistani custody.
The FBI believes that bin al-Shibh was to have been the twentieth hijacker in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington but did not take part after he was denied entry into the United States. Bin al-Shibh has claimed to be the co-ordinator of the four simultaneous hijackings.
Moinuddin Haider, the Interior Minister, said that Pakistan was willing to extradite them to the United States, but he did not say when they would be flown out. Last night Germany dropped a request for the extradition of bin al-Shibh for his part in a Hamburg-based al-Qaeda cell that planned the September 11 attacks.
Though no public indictment has been issued against bin al-Shibh in the United States, he has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case of Zacharias Moussaoui, the so-called twentieth hijacker, who was arrested before September 11.
These guys might be AlQaida. They might also be nothing more than "enforcers" for Bin Laden's honey cartel.
That's why it took nearly a year before they were busted.
If the Muslim news service is compromised it will serve to further isolate the al Queda cells. They will have to view with great suspicion any info transmitted by al Jazeera. Any doubt, confusio, or bewilderment that can be directed al Queda's way is cause to celebrate.
An "impressive" job if so, since he would have had to have done it entirely from outside the USA. Lots of phone calls and/or email and/or faxes, which nobody noticed. I take it with a tiny grain of salt, since Muslim bullies are also known to be highly exaggeratory braggarts.
>china?
New Jersey, Michigan, Florida.
I'll save some money that way. They sure do eat a lot...
;^)
And they have rounded up about 400 of these perps. Musharrif is Dubya's B*tch. Contrast to Scumbag, who couldn't even control his own wife.
Actually, the Pakis are doing really well, IMHO. I'm sure there are still scattered al-Qaeda sympathizers in the intelligence service, police and military, but the degree to which Pakistan has reversed policy is quite amazing. Many Paki police and intelligence agents are putting it all on the line to fight terrorism. (However I fear that India/Kashmir may still be something of an exception in this regard.)
"I'll save some money that way. They sure do eat a lot...
That's an idea but, I wouldn't want to make them sick with the 'tainted' meat.
In other words, no trip to GITMO or the US for justice for this guy. They'll take him someplace like Turkey, and let the Turks "interrogate" him. The US interregator will simply be there to observe and learn what he can.
This guy doesn't get do replay of the "Ramsey Youseff" public charade, he just gets a chance to make all kinds of serious decisions about his future in a more private setting.
I bet that knocks some of his defiance out of him pronto... which is just fine with me, I'm pretty tired of seeing these maggots use our freedoms as a weapon against us.
It SURE IS...1 little, TWO little, THREE little checkmarks....
I am. Unless they felt the need not to have the names of some of their editors and producers put on "wanted" lists. Unless they didn't have a choice but to cooperate.
The US did a little electronic serveillance on bin al-Shibh's satellite phone, the scuttlebut goes...and most likely, it was his interview with al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has proven itself to be biased toward extremists...it's take an awful lot to convince me they've changed their tune.
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