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2005-05-04 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-04 7:41:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 On Beeb too.. get the panties ready..

Posted by Howard UK 2005-05-04 08:16|| 2005-05-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 He's got Libbi Libbi Libbi
On his mugshot mugshot mugshot

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-05-04 08:53|| 2005-05-04 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 looks like the Pakis have been busy little beavers up in NWFP.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-04 09:34|| 2005-05-04 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Additional One of the officials said 11 more terror suspects - including three Uzbeks, an Afghan and seven Pakistanis - were arrests before dawn Wednesday in the Bajor tribal region. The official would not say what prompted authorities to launch the raid or whether it was linked to al-Libbi's capture.
The intelligence officials said authorities were led to al-Libbi's hideout by a tip that foreigners had been spotted in the area. The suspect was held overnight at a military facility in Mardan, then transferred by helicopter to the capital, Islamabad, the officials said.

Posted by Steve 2005-05-04 9:48:23 AM|| 2005-05-04 9:48:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 1. If it was a tip, that means the coppers are getting cooperation even up in NWFP. At least some locals arent so afraid of the jihadis anymore. OR those locals have been well paid off by our side.

2. Pakis get to squeeeze him first? Given controversy on US interrogation techniques, better to let Pakis have a nice long shot at him?

3. Noose tightening on OBL?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-04 10:15|| 2005-05-04 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Given controversy on US interrogation techniques, better to let Pakis have a nice long shot at him?

Eh? I thought letting other people, with fewer scruples, interrogate was one of the ''controversies''.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-04 10:32|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-04 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I love controversies :-)

Hope his ticker holds out long enough for it to be a reallllllly painful interrogation

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-04 11:15|| 2005-05-04 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Since he is alleged to have been behind two assassination attempts on Musharef, I suspect that the Paki interrogation of this guy will be considerably more intense than ours would have been. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by RWV 2005-05-04 11:33|| 2005-05-04 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Ahhh. Another brave Islamist who has no problems sending young men and women (even handicaped) to die for the cause, yet they somehow escape death in thier religious fever, and just get caught. Which, if the Ted Kennedy's of the world are right, this is worse than death, with all the unaccounted panties in the world.

Posted by plainslow 2005-05-04 12:17|| 2005-05-04 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Musharef was seen browsing the needle-nose pliers display at the Islamabad Sears...though it could just be a coincidence.

Posted by Justrand 2005-05-04 12:27|| 2005-05-04 12:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Looks like Perv might've already met with him...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20050504/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_terror_arrests

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-04 12:56|| 2005-05-04 12:56|| Front Page Top

#12 ah RC, thats renditition. When we send somebody under OUR custody to the hands of some country with less scruples. But in this case he was CAUGHT in Pakistan, BY the Pakistanis. No rendition. No problem. And as others have said, the Pakis have plenty to ask him about.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-04 13:11|| 2005-05-04 13:11|| Front Page Top

#13 His face look like he has been under "intense questioning."

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-04 2:17:55 PM|| 2005-05-04 2:17:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I think it'll be short and sweet. Wouldn't want the names of any friendly ISI guys to come out in questioning, would we? Do they have crossfires in Pakland?

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-05-04 14:18|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-05-04 14:18|| Front Page Top

#15 But what's the difference. If unscrupulous country A has a warrant for Bob Jihadi, and we hand them over, how's that different than if UCA caught him in the first place?

Not that it matters, as far as I'M concerned. Terrorists have no rights.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-04 14:18|| 2005-05-04 14:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Well I suppose it depends on the solidity of UCA's warrant, our extradition treaty with UCA, etc. If send a guy to UCA on a more or less made up warrant, its pretty clear we're using UCA. If UCA has the guy, there aint nothing for us to do - nobody can ask us to snatch the guy from UCA to protect him from torture. So it DOES matter.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-04 14:22|| 2005-05-04 14:22|| Front Page Top

#17 What's going on with his face? He has splotches under his eyes that look like Michael Jackson in transition.

Posted by Penguin 2005-05-04 14:57|| 2005-05-04 14:57|| Front Page Top

#18 he fell.several times.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-04 15:07|| 2005-05-04 15:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Throw some black velvet behind him and he'd look like one of those Sad Clown paintings.

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-04 15:10|| 2005-05-04 15:10|| Front Page Top

#20 maybe a pagliacci clown....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-04 15:16|| 2005-05-04 15:16|| Front Page Top

#21 He's getting ready for his Sammy-style dental exam.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-05-04 15:24|| 2005-05-04 15:24|| Front Page Top

#22 He's Libyan, Penguin. The splotches are what his skin color should be, but he hasn't enough melanin to tan the rest. And he's been losing his hair, and his eyes slant oddly. I'd say he wasn't a favourite with the girls ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-04 15:26|| 2005-05-04 15:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Those splotches look like burns. ~~Premature explosion~~ Occupational accident?

Posted by BH 2005-05-04 15:28|| 2005-05-04 15:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Not enough sun block? Too much sun block? Mis-applied sunblock? Ir was it a chemical peel gone horribly wrong? I'm just dyin to know!

Posted by remoteman 2005-05-04 15:38|| 2005-05-04 15:38|| Front Page Top

#25 I hope he's on the midnight flight to Diego Garcia where the best interrogation methods will be used. Torture isn't necessary to breakdown this pussy and have him babbling about his associates

Posted by sea cruise 2005-05-04 15:41|| 2005-05-04 15:41|| Front Page Top

#26 Looks like advanced vitiligo. Lucky for him, he has been living in a cave these past few years and won't ever see sunshine again.

Posted by ed 2005-05-04 15:43|| 2005-05-04 15:43|| Front Page Top

#27 With a face like that, there is no need to bring out Khalid's Shirt of Shame.

Posted by Gleaper Cleregum9549 2005-05-04 16:58|| 2005-05-04 16:58|| Front Page Top

#28 TW: The splotches are what his skin color should be, but he hasn't enough melanin to tan the rest. And he's been losing his hair, and his eyes slant oddly.

I think that's correct. The guy was trying to blend in by coloring his skin using on one of those tan-in-a-bottle formulas. A Libyan should have the skin complexion of an Italian - Pakistanis are usually brown-skinned. The splotches are probably from the Pakistani police washing the tanning solution off to verify his ethnicity.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-05-04 17:12|| timurileng.blogspot.com]">[timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-05-04 17:12|| Front Page Top

#29 In case anyone needs any motivation in asking this guy a few questions.

Posted by Matt 2005-05-04 17:20|| 2005-05-04 17:20|| Front Page Top

#30 Squeeze him and then squeeze him some more.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-05-04 17:27|| 2005-05-04 17:27|| Front Page Top

#31 Other reports have mentioned psoriasis. This looks like a natural skin problem to me. I have seen quite a few similar in Australian Aboriginal people, mostly women. My guess would be his parents had widely different skin pigmentation.

Posted by Grunter 2005-05-04 17:41|| 2005-05-04 17:41|| Front Page Top

#32 Now that is a capital idea!

Forget the panties -- Place him in the same cell with Michael Jackson!

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-04 18:28|| 2005-05-04 18:28|| Front Page Top

#33 Libi has a skin condition, there's no make up there folks. Not a handsome fella, but a dangerous one best taken off the playing field.

Posted by H8_UBL 2005-05-04 19:23|| 2005-05-04 19:23|| Front Page Top

#34 Looks like he needs a good shave... with a pair of wide-lip pliers.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-05-04 20:03|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-05-04 20:03|| Front Page Top

#35 He is the latest in a long line of ''Al Qaeda #3''s

Don't forget
Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubeida, Yassir al-Jaziri, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani

Lot more where he came from

UBL is no closer to being captured

Posted by john 2005-05-04 20:21|| 2005-05-04 20:21|| Front Page Top

#36 And that means ... what, John?

While it would be satisfying to capture OBL, doing so won't really have all that much of an impact on the Islamacist movement that has been seeded for decades with Wahabist money and Salafist hate. And it won't change the repression, economic poverty and lack of basic education that plagues most of the Islamic countries, which in turn makes Islamacism attractive to some/many of their people.

I think we all get your point here and in other posts about OBL, but it doesn't seem like an impressive point to me. We'll unravel this network while others labor to extend it and over time we'll see who has the greater momentum and endurance.

Posted by too true 2005-05-04 20:30|| 2005-05-04 20:30|| Front Page Top

#37 In the Business biz they call it, ''opportunity for rapid advancement.'' Lots of #4s are ambitious to move up a level... do let's continue helping them out.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-04 20:45|| 2005-05-04 20:45|| Front Page Top

#38 The islamists thrive on an illusion of muslim superiority, invinvibility and power.
The capture of UBL would be a terrible blow to their dignity. While it would not stop terrorism, it may decrease the number of willing followers.

Every few months the press goes gaga whenever Musharraf hands over another #3.
He has to be made to start draining the terror swamp.

Posted by john 2005-05-04 20:53|| 2005-05-04 20:53|| Front Page Top

#39 Handsome chap , if you took away the bad looks , dodgy eyes and poor skin condition , he looks like everybody's passport photo :)
Oooh and good news !

Posted by MacNails 2005-05-04 21:14|| 2005-05-04 21:14|| Front Page Top

#40 Chrenkoff has some nice ''before and after pictures'' of the guy.

The disadvantages of pissing off America--http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/disadvantages-of-pissing-off-america.html

Posted by SwissTex 2005-05-04 23:15|| 2005-05-04 23:15|| Front Page Top

#41 A bit more on him here

Posted by tipper 2005-05-04 23:22|| 2005-05-04 23:22|| Front Page Top

#42 Looks like accelerated depreciation....

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