A chilling inheritance of terror [Khalid Mohammed Already Dead Last Year, Yet FBI Just Caught Him!]

Asia Times ^ | Oct. 30, 2002 !!! | Syed Saleem Shahzad

[Hoppean]

Rescued from the Memory Hole: the al-Qaeda leader the FBI announces they just caught was already confirmed dead last year!

[piasa]

Nice try, but look at the source.

[DB]

I guess he wasn't so dead...

[Pro-Bush]

Seen this story all over the web...Check this out from ABC News: http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s796172.htm

Ahmed's cousin Omar Khan, a medical doctor, said the security men took away a computer when they searched the house.

Some analysts questioned whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually been arrested on Saturday and speculated he may have been held for some time.

"I think he was arrested several months ago in the shootout in Karachi," one expert on Pakistan who declined to be identified said, referring to a gunbattle in September in the southern port city that netted another Al Qaeda figure, Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, known as Binalshibh.

Mohammed was reported to have narrowly evaded capture in that battle, when Karachi police identified him as a man hit by a police sniper.

[FairOpinion]

Actually the Asia Times is a pretty reliable news source.

I think this article just shows how hard it is to catch these people.

This guy was the master of disguises, and he probably had a prearrangement with the wife, that in such situation, she should identify the body of someone else.

But obviously the intel agencies didn't fully believe he was dead, or they wouldn't have continued to look for him, until they finally caught him. Maybe that article was just disinformation put out to make him think they bought the story.

The article also pointed out what an important catch this guy is.

" Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has been described as "probably the only man who knows all the [al-Qaeda] pieces of the puzzle" "

[Allan]

Rescued from the Memory Hole:
the al-Qaeda leader the FBI announces
they just caught was already confirmed dead last year!

Depends which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
you are talking about.
There seem to be many of them.
Some of them may be dead.
Others may be alive
and well
and living in Iraq.
Still others may be studying
or teaching
in prestigious universities

[Cindy]

C.P.R.

[Mitchell]

Thanks for the ping. So the story of his being found does seem to go back to Fall, 2002, not just to a few days ago. Whether he was captured or killed I don't know, but my guess is that he was captured alive. Would they take a chance on saying he was captured if, in fact, he had been killed? Lies like that have a way of being revealed, causing both embarrassment and loss of credibility.

[The Great Satan]

I remember the arrest last September, and for a few hours, the story was they they picked up KSM with bin-Alshib (or whatever the hell the other fellow's name was). A few hours after the story broke, they said, no, KSM got away in the ambush -- later it came out that they got his kids. I think it is quite possible that, as some in Pakistan are suggesting, the arrest took place back in September, and they are only revealing it now to coincide with the end-game in the UN. There is talk of him being shipped back to Kuwait. I wonder, if that happens, what will be revealed at that point?

[HAL9000]

Pakistani press carried pictures of a message scrawled in blood on the wall of the flat, proclaiming the Muslim refrain of Kalma, in Arabic: "There is no God except Allah, Mohammed is his messenger"). An official who was present in the flat at the time of the shooting has told Asia Times Online that the message was written by Shaikh Mohammed with his own blood as his life drained from him.

One would have to be a complete idiot to believe this rubbish.

[The Great Satan]

One would have to be a complete idiot to believe this rubbish.

It's almost as ludicrous as this.

[piasa]

I wasn't referring to the Asia Times, I was referring to these jokers:

Sources close to Pakistani intelligence agents say that the wife

I wouldn't be surprised if we caught him back then and are only now revealing it... we did that with Padilla, for example. But as for parts from "sources close to the Paki intelligence," keep in mind the nature of the source.

[Mitchell]

I think it is quite possible that, as some in Pakistan are suggesting, the arrest took place back in September...

Yes, I've been thinking that the arrest might have taken place some time last Fall, but I hadn't remembered that he was involved when Binalshibh was captured.

It didn't make sense to me that we would reveal his capture immediately. Why would we give away our hand like that? If you don't announce his capture and then decide that going public would be useful, you can always do so. But once you go public, that's it, you can't take it back. So I figured that he had been captured much earlier than was being stated, probably in Fall, 2002, but it was just being announced now.

In fact, maybe he wasn't captured in the September incident. I'm just speculating here, but perhaps he escaped then, as one of the stories claimed, and was only captured a month or two later.

[xm177e2]

Rescued from the Memory Hole: the al-Qaeda leader the FBI announces they just caught was already confirmed dead last year!

Confirmed dead??? By who? Unnamed sources????

[Allan]

For what it's worth
I heard a report tonight
that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was living
with a Major in the Pakistani Army
in a house
owned by the leader of Islam al Jamiah
a Pakistani fundamentalist organization.

[Petronski]

Later, the Pakistani press carried pictures of a message scrawled in blood on the wall of the flat, proclaiming the Muslim refrain of Kalma, in Arabic: "There is no God except Allah, Mohammed is his messenger"). An official who was present in the flat at the time of the shooting has told Asia Times Online that the message was written by Shaikh Mohammed with his own blood as his life drained from him.

Credibility aplenty! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!

[opbuzz]

Miracle Max said he was just mostly dead.

[Ben Ficklin]

MSNBC has also hinted at Khalid having been previously captured and held.

Third paragraph under Home Raided, Searched

[keri]

Thanks for the ping.

[Allan]

According to a very interesting report
I heard last night
the Pakistani authorities have known
all along
where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was.
(Living with a Pakistani Army Major).
It only was when the FBI finally tracked him down
that they were forced to do something about it.
Don't forget
the Pakistanis airlifted 4000 Taliban
and al Qaeda
out of Kunduz, Afghanistan,
before the city fell to the rebels.
All of them still are living safely
in Pakistan.
Musharraf probably even knows
where bin Laden is staying.