Posted on 10/15/2004 6:48:04 AM PDT by TexKat
Pakistan will hunt down Abdullah Mehsud, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who masterminded the abduction of two Chinese engineers, one of whom died after a rescue operation in which five kidnappers were killed, officials said on October 15, 2004. The Al Qaeda-linked tribesman, seen after his release from Guantanamo March 16, directed the six-day hostage drama -- which caused consternation in key ally China -- from a hideout in the hills of the South Waziristan tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, officials said. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
He was a nice little tribesman until the evil US wrongfully imprisoned him in a tropical paradise with more and better food than he'd ever seen.
When he was released from the vacation spot . . . um, hellhole, he had become radicalized. We created a monster.
It was the Democrats who wanted us to release these guys from Guantanamo. Remember? We had no legal basis to hold them.
Once the Pakis get him, his time in Gitmo is going to seem like an interlude at Club Med.
Abdullah Mehsud ping.
23 posted on 10/14/2004 11:22:23 AM CDT by FreeReign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1244912/posts
Pakistani police arrest Al Qaeda linked groups militant (AFP)
15 October 2004
KARACHI - Pakistani police said Friday they have arrested an Al Qaeda linked local militant suspected of involvement in an attack on a top army general and a foiled attempt to blow up the United States consulate here.
Police identified the suspect as Syed Adnan Shah, 26, a member of the Jund Allah or Army of God militant group, whose members had been trained by Al Qaeda in camps near the Afghan border.
Shah was arrested from a house in Karachis Nazimabad neighbourhood late Thursday, senior police official Manzoor Mughal told AFP.
Adnan was the one who opened fire on (army) commander Ahsan Saleem Hayat and was also wanted in connection with an attempt to blow-up an explosive-laden car outside the US consulate, he said.
Lieutenant General Hayat, former military commander of southern Sindh province, narrowly escaped the attack on his convoy on June 10. Seven soldiers, three policemen and a passerby were killed in the attack.
Mughal said Shah was also involved in an attempt to blow-up a car laden with 650 litres of chemical explosives outside the US consulate in Karachi in March.
He described the Jund Allah group as dangerous and said police were looking for other members who may be hiding in the city.
A Pakistani court last month indicted 10 members of the group, including its chief Attaur Rehman, for the attack on Hayats convoy.
Karachi, Pakistans largest city and commercial capital with 14 million people, is a hotbed of Islamic extremism.
Thanx for the ping
BTTT
He should've been planted like an onion in the first place.
It's too easy to make these mistakes. There should be a big pit that we simply dump these guys into.
Sort of makes me want to live in Pakistan where terrorists are taken care of and I don't mean by the way Clinton and cronies did it or how Kerry intends to do it.
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There is a whole genre of Hollywood films based upon the character of the maniacal hunter who releases some hapless victim into the wild and then hunts him down and kills him for sport.
"The Most Dangerous Game (1932)"
"Run for the Sun (1956)"
"Deadly Prey (1987)"
"Deadly Game (1991)"
"Final Round (1993)"
"Hard Target (1993)"
"Surviving the Game (1994)"
Some would even consider this to be more sporting than a trial before a military tribunal.
--Boot Hill
But the sobering reality is more innocents are dead because this scumbag was set free.
The sobering reality is that war always results in the death of innocents; it is the nature of the beast. If there is any decency in war, it may be found in limiting those deaths, while still securing victory over an enemy that is the primary cause of the those deaths. Ironically, releasing Abdullah Mehsud may well be an example of this.
--Boot Hill
I was thinking the same thing.
Did you ever see that old movie with Mickey Rooney as a town sheriff. He would let inmates escape from jail so that he could go hunt them down in order to put more knotches on his belt. In the end the table turned on him.
Quote from the end of that movie: "What you wanna go do that far, I'm da law."
Hopefully we'll get this guy real soon.
Don't forget the pig entrails!
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