Cole Suspect Turned Over by Pakistan

Washington Post ^ | October 28, 2001 | Kamran Khan and Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 27 -- A Yemeni microbiology student wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole was secretly handed over to U.S. authorities by Pakistan's intelligence agency early Friday, Pakistani government sources said today.

Pakistani officials said the student, Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, 27, is an active member of the al Qaeda terrorist organization, which is run by Osama bin Laden, the alleged architect of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

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[VaBthang4]

That means he is on his way to the United States?

Will he be handled by the UCMJ or civilian courts?

[null and void]

And a microbiologist as well. What a remarkable co-incidence...

[vikzilla]

"there may be other places where they are wanted and we just help get them there."

Yeah, like on your way to Egypt to be roasted over an open fire 'till you talk.

[OldFriend]

I remember one of the WTC bombers from '93 begging to be brought back to the US for trial. They do interesting things to criminals in the middle east!

[samtheman]

Will he be handled by the UCMJ or civilian courts?

First the ACLU will get him acquitted. Then Hillary will hug him. Then CNN will interview him. Then all the writers of the Washington Post, the New York Times and the New Yorker Magazine will praise him. Then the Nobel Committee will give him a peace prize. Then Ted Kennedy will sponsor him for citizenship. Then Jesse Jackson will sue to have him hired by the FAA doing airport security.

I think his future is pretty well secured.

[MaeWest]

So is this the same one who was filmed being handed over at the Karachi airport and everyone was masked?

[Sunshine55]

So this is our mystery man....

[McGavin999]

One by one we'll get them. I hope they don't bring them back to the US. I know that sounds funny, but we're too kind and we're too concerned with prisoners right. I don't think these dirtbags have any rights. I want them taken to a country that is NOT concerned with prisoners rights.

[Catspaw]

So is this the same one who was filmed being handed over at the Karachi airport and everyone was masked?

Uh huh.

And no one seems to know where he is. I just hate that when that happens, don't you?

[clintonh8r]

Get all the information he has to give and then throw him out of the plane.

[okie01]

"That means he is on his way to the United States?"

According to the initial article on this story, filed last night by Pakistani News Service, the Gulfstream was a charter and had filed a flight plan for Amman, Jordan.

Amman could be a re-fueling stop. Or a transfer point to a larger plane. Or an interrogation stopover, hosted by Jordanian intelligence -- to whom Miranda rights are unknown.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

REFERNCE BUMP

[foreshadowed at waco]

I don't believe in torture but I do believe in the fear of torture. Let's hope that this guy names names and that we net dozens more of these vermin. I like that we are rooting these guys out of their holes. BTW is truth serum or sleep deprivation considered torture?

[MaeWest]

Nope. That's gentle persuasion.

[maranatha]

bump that thought

[WOSG]

Amman could be a re-fueling stop. Or a transfer point to a larger plane. Or an interrogation stopover, hosted by Jordanian intelligence -- to whom Miranda rights are unknown.

In my dreams I wish our guys were that smart and Machiavellian! In the best of all worlds on these terrorist evil-doers we'd use Egyptian police tactics (the ol' battery-to-the-testicles technique), Turkish prisons (give him a big hairy, lovable roommate), and Saudi executioners (let's make that 'sword of justice' literal). After all, these guys are fighting against Western Democratic freedoms. Ironic to give them its benefits in the pursuit of justice.

[Excuse_Me]

They were looking for a Pakistani in the Anthrax mailings, according to this article in an Australian news site. Maybe they caught him.

[aristeides]

He can be tried by military tribunal: APPLICATION OF YAMASHITA, 327 U.S. 1 (1946) ; EX PARTE QUIRIN, 317 U.S. 1 (1942) .

[aristeides]

Pakistani officials said they are investigating other Arab students at the University of Karachi for al Qaeda connections. The inquiry, which has been an open secret on the campus, has resulted in more than 100 Arab students leaving the university and returning home, a university official said.

I wonder how many of these other students have been studying microbiology.