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| News from the other side: Abu Zubaydah not as lively as we thought? |
| 2002-08-06 |
| Reliable sources have disclosed that Abu Zubaydah, alleged senior Al-Qaida operative who was arrested by US and Pakistani authorities in March earlier this year, may have died shortly after his arrest as a result of injuries sustained in a shootout. In the morning of 28 March 2002, Pakistani and US Special Forces raided a house next to a madrassah in the Punjabi town of Faisalabad in order to capture Abu Zubaydah. Abu Zubaydah refused to surrender and fired on his Pakistani attackers saying to them, "You are not Muslims." Pakistani forces shot Abu Zubaydah in his stomach several times and then captured him. What happened next is the subject of a cover-up by US authorities and the truth remains to be seen. Pretty weak example of propaganda. From the U.S. standpoint at the time, killing or capturing him would have been equally ducky. Had he died of his wounds, the Bad Guys would have propagandized that we'd killed him because we hate Muslims. Since he didn't die, and since he was at that time Binny's designated successor, nabbing him was a coup. The Bad Guys, let's face it, hate to admit that anybody's dead except for the dozens of Americans they're slaughering every day in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |