Kill this POS before Obama appoints him to his cabinet.
Posted on 11/15/2008 1:18:00 PM PST by gandalftb
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan who escaped last year from Bagram prison has been captured, U.S. military sources said Monday.
Abu Nasir al-Qahtani was among six people arrested last Monday during a raid by coalition and Afghan forces in Khost province, the sources said.
A coalition military press release issued at the time of al-Qahtani's arrest described him only as a "known al Qaeda terrorist" and said he was taken into custody along with Saudi and Pakistani nationals.
Al-Qahtani was one of four al Qaeda detainees who escaped from the high-security detention facility at the U.S. base in Bagram in July 2005.
The men later appeared in an al Qaeda video describing their detention and escape.
Al-Qahtani went into the most detail about the escape, even drawing a map of the Bagram prison. He said that after sneaking off the base the four men eventually made contact with the Taliban.
Another of the four escapees, Omar al-Farouq, was killed in late September in Basra, Iraq, by British troops.
A coalition spokesman in Kabul said Monday that grenades, military equipment, armor-piercing rounds and AK-47 assault rifles were found during last week's raid. A camera containing surveillance video of nearby military installations also was recovered.
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What's new is intel that the Saudi Arab that was also captured was none other than Abu Qais, right-hand to Ayman al Zawahiri.
Abu Qais was known to be in Iraq for several years and was the courier between Zarqawi and Zawahiri.
This capture would really get us close to Zawahiri.
BTW, one of the other escapees from Bagram was al-Libbi. Abu Qais is one of the tactical inner circle of al Qaeda.
Let's hope it's really him and that his "surf's up" interview is successful.
Fantastic! God bless our awesome troops!
See! Obama’s making things better already.
Don’t worry, the Obama administration will probably release him with an apology and compensation.
“surf’s up”? LOL.
This time - shoot him.
> Let’s hope it’s really him and that his “surf’s up” interview is successful.
Boogie board, baby!
next time they capture one of these guys he needs to try to escape and our guys need to stop him with rounds......
we have a base in cuba filled with these guys that Hussein wants to set free.
Kill this POS before Obama appoints him to his cabinet.
Is this confirmed?
This story is 2 years old. I don’t think there was ever any US confirmation.
U.S. forces said they grabbed a “key insurgent leader” in a joint raid with Afghan police Friday in a village in eastern Ghazni province. No shots were fired in the raid, the statement said.
The captured man is responsible for the deaths of Afghan troops, bomb attacks on coalition forces and the kidnapping of aid workers, according to the statement. A spokesman declined to give further information on the leader’s identity while they search for his confederates.
Posted for archival purposes:
GLOBAL JIHAD - JIHAD PROPAGANDA:
“Guantanamo Detainee Abu Nasir - Parts 1-4”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u3lmouPhnQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QfBbeL3AXA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrd0Q-bYPXg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px1UkQxtnKc
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