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Nashiri singing like a bird?
Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief has given his American captors a significant amount of information, and authorities hope he will reveal details of acts of terror still being planned. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi in his mid-thirties who is suspected of being the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing in Oct. 2000, was captured nearly two weeks ago, by an unidentified foreign government which turned him over to the United States. I read he was arrested in Sana'a. Guess the Yemenis don't want to admit it for political purposes... Since last week, U.S. officials had said a senior Al Qaeda leader was in custody, but had declined to identify him. On Sunday, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said the prisoner was providing information to his interrogators. "More giggle juice, Rahim?" "Yessshhh, thank you. I'd love some..." Officials declined to comment on the circumstances or location of al-Nashiri's capture, but described it to Fox News as a significant achievement, not least because it showed that the unnamed nation that captured him is committed to the U.S.-led war on terror. Despite neighboring the hub of world terrorism and being infested by its own version of Pashtuns... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-11-24 |
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