"You're going to lecture ME on reality when you don't even know who these thugs are? Okay, Prof."
===U think u know a lot? Huh....Dude? Check this out. Hambali and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was NEITHER arrested in Pakistan nor by Pakistanis(Mushy and Co.). Hambali was arrested in Thailand. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was arrested in the United Arab Emirates.
Try to get some general knowledge befor u post this kind of stuff.
Hambali => An Indonesian national also known as Riduan Isamuddin recognized as the terror group's top operative in Southeast Asia, operational brain behind the Jemmah Islamiyah (JI) and suspected of being responsible for planning the lethal bombing of a Bali nightclub and the bombing of Marriott hotel in Jakarta. He was arrested in the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri => An al Qaeda "top 10" of leaders according to CNN. Al-Qaida's Persian Gulf operations chief who believed to have been heavily involved in the planning of the bombing of the USS Cole. Al-Nashiri, a Saudi, was captured in November 2002 in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Nashiri was arrested based on intelligence provided by Saudi authorities. Besides the Cole attack, he is suspected of helping direct the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, U.S. officials say.
Abu Zubaydah => Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn Abu Zubaydah is a Palestinian long believed to be one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants. Experts think Abu Zubaydah became al-Qaeda's chief of military operations after Muhammed Atef was killed in a U.S. bombing raid on Afghanistan in Nov. 2001. Early in 2002, intelligence experts said Abu Zubaydah was reorganizing the far-flung remnants of the al-Qaeda network to plan further terrorist actions. He is suspected of helping plan a wave of incidents that was to have taken place after Sept. 11, 2001, including attacks on the American embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.
Arrested on 28 March 2002 in Faislabad, Pakistan. (so that was two years ago) And its now 2005.
Next time try not to argue about the virtues of the Pakistani government with an Indian. We know the pakis better than u. Indians have taken bodybags againts those scums.
Hambali had been in Thailand about a month when he was arrested, yes. Pakistan then arrested his brother and almost 20 other suspected terrorists.
Al-Nashiri had the "IIRC" caveat after his name, meaning I was going from memory and was not sure I was correct. I was not.
That still doesn't mean a thing. Pakistan has captured and turned over, just to name a few:
-Abu Zubaydah (not a middle-level Taliban member)
-Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (not a middle-level Taliban member)
-Ahmed Ghailani (not a middle-level Taliban member)
-Naeem Noor Khan (not a middle-level Taliban member)
-Amjad Farooqi (not a middle-level Taliban member)
I've said nothing about Pakistan's virtues. You're just completely blinded by your anger/hatred toward that government, dude.