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Al Qaeda bust's a blow to terror
New York Daily News ^ | 26 May 2005 | JAMES GORDON MEEK

Posted on 05/26/2005 10:01:45 PM PDT by Cap Huff

The capture this month of one of Al Qaeda's top commanders has led to the arrests of at least 17 more suspects, including a trusted "courier" for the group's top leaders.

The courier, terrorist hunters hope, may bring them one step closer to Osama Bin Laden.

A notebook seized during the May 2 capture of Abu Faraj al-Libbi had coded entries, including names, and is being analyzed by a joint FBI and CIA exploitation unit in Virginia, sources said.

Al-Libbi has clammed up since his arrest, but at least 17 people - including some named in the notebook - have been rolled up.

One who was grabbed is an Uzbek operative who is suspected of being assigned to carry messages between top Al Qaeda leaders, a senior Pakistani official told the Daily News.

Officials have learned the Uzbek was in the U.S. prior to the Sept. 11 terror attacks to help an associate under arrest, another source said. Details of the trip were not available.

A U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed that the Uzbek man "was a courier" for al-Libbi. The source also said the presence of an Uzbek in the top ranks of the terror group proved reports of a rift in Al Qaeda between Arabs and Uzbek fighters "is wrong."

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allibbi; alqaeda; alqaida; libbi; obl; osamabinladen; uzbeck; uzbek
The rest of the article speculates about OBL being in Iran.
1 posted on 05/26/2005 10:01:46 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Dog; Coop; AdmSmith; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Straight Vermonter; Wiz

FYI


2 posted on 05/26/2005 10:02:29 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Cap Huff

Gee, all we used to hear all the time about our failure to capture UBL, but funny how we don't see equal coverage of these huge successes. Not that we should expect balance in our news coverage, heaven forbid.


3 posted on 05/26/2005 10:05:17 PM PDT by Dr.Hilarious (If Al Qaeda took over the judiciary and mainstream media, how would they do anything differently?)
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To: Cap Huff

If he "clammed up", the air compressor pressure is to be increased. Gradually inflating the guy normally unties the tongue.


4 posted on 05/26/2005 10:08:05 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: Dr.Hilarious

Right. And this particular capture, of Libbi, has from the start been downplayed by a few "analysts" and "former government official" and a few foreign commentors.

There's something going on in the background --- a debate about the importance of Libbi, and I'm not sure what the agenda's are really all about.


5 posted on 05/26/2005 10:09:54 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Cap Huff

hes in riyad


6 posted on 05/26/2005 10:10:48 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (whats wrong with a draft?)
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To: Dr.Hilarious

Yep. Any positive news is totally ignored, yet every single negative aspect is shouted forth from the battlements.


7 posted on 05/26/2005 10:11:11 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: spetznaz; Cap Huff

I'm only asking that they play these REAL stories--and those on the Wall Street Journal's bi-monthly updates from Iraq--with at LEAST as much space as they devote to, you know, INVENTED stories about Korans in toilets.


8 posted on 05/26/2005 10:13:01 PM PDT by Dr.Hilarious (If Al Qaeda took over the judiciary and mainstream media, how would they do anything differently?)
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To: Dr.Hilarious

Your tagline raises a good point.


9 posted on 05/26/2005 10:15:53 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Cap Huff

Operation Thunder is about to commence in Baghdad, 40,000 Iraqi and 10,000 American troops.

How long before the NGOs and MSM begin ranting about "human rights abuses" and the futility of the Op?

Operation Matador was out most recent "disaster".


10 posted on 05/26/2005 10:18:14 PM PDT by angkor
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To: GSlob

Hold him down and poor ginger ale down his nostrils. That used to be a favorite.


11 posted on 05/26/2005 10:22:44 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws....SMILE!)
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To: angkor

I long ago started assuming that the MSM was part of the enemy propaganda war. Once in a while real news slips through, but for the most part the MSM has it twisted.


12 posted on 05/26/2005 10:26:02 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: wildcatf4f3

He's in his current hiding place.


13 posted on 05/26/2005 10:30:52 PM PDT by Petruchio ( ... .--. .- -.-- / .- -. -.. / -. . ..- - . .-. / .. .-.. .-.. . --. .- .-.. / .- .-.. .. . -. ...)
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To: Ronin

Ginger Ale?...never heard of that one.


14 posted on 05/27/2005 12:29:12 AM PDT by gr8eman (I think...therefore I am...a capitalist!)
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To: Cap Huff

They must have pushed libbi to the limit ;) Give him a week or two to heal up....


15 posted on 05/27/2005 1:13:08 AM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Ronin

Hold him down and poor ginger ale down his nostrils. That used to be a favorite......


7 Up is used by the Federales in Mexico. I hear it makes you feel like your brain is exploding. Strap to chair. Hold head tilted back and pour the soda down the nostrils of the one you interrogate.


16 posted on 05/27/2005 1:18:03 AM PDT by dennisw (He writes everything's been returned which was owed...)
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To: dennisw

The Mexican cops I know prefer to tilt the subjects head back and pour 7-Up down the nostrils. They tell me, after that they can't get the suspect to shut up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295805/posts?page=16#16


17 posted on 05/27/2005 1:19:31 AM PDT by dennisw (He writes everything's been returned which was owed...)
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To: Deetes

OK, let's try that again . . .


18 posted on 05/27/2005 2:37:25 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Cap Huff
The rest of the article speculates about OBL being in Iran.

That's been my belief for a long time now.

19 posted on 05/27/2005 4:41:41 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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