To: Codeflier
The guy is a Kansan.
It's all over the news here.
There seems to be some dispute over the fingerprints...Spain says they don't belong to him.
He's just another poor muslim affected by the Patriot Act.
8 posted on
05/11/2004 9:03:44 PM PDT by
baltodog
(There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't.)
To: baltodog
that's not entirely accurate. There are three different reports coming out of Spain: 1) is that there was a strong match with his fingerprints and the likelihood that somebody with close ties to AlQaeda operatives, as the suspect has been previously & publicly known to have engaged, is highly suspect in of itself given the odds against such a connection if merely pure circumstance. 2) is that there was an 8 point match on the fingerprints, close enough that the match identified him as the only person in the world so close but other uncertainties remain. 3) the story orginating out of the leftist press in Spain & cojoined by sympathizers here in the US that the guy is a poor muslim, admittedly supportive of AlQaeda types in prior circumstances, but is obviously innocent of such dastardly deeds and another purported liberal victim of the Patriot Act. US authorities have not commented nor contributed much, if anything, further.
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