Burqa trap set for terror suspect

BBC ^ | May 5, 2005

[Alouette]

Pakistani agents wearing burqas seized al-Qaeda suspect Abu Faraj al-Libbi by ambushing his motorbike in a rural town, police told the BBC.

The man alleged to be a top al-Qaeda organiser was riding pillion and managed to run into a house where agents flushed him out with tear gas.

He has been held at an undisclosed location since his capture at Mardan, 60km (37 miles) from Peshawar.

Pakistani officials have ruled out his immediate extradition to the US.

They said he would not be handed over before being exhaustively questioned by local authorities.

US President George W Bush has called his capture "a critical victory in the war on terror".

BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says it is the most significant arrest since the 2003 capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of 9/11.

Our correspondent notes that the al-Qaeda hierarchy has always been fluid and complex and reports of him being the network's number three are hard to confirm.

However, there have been reports that he was involved in sending messages to al-Qaeda cells overseas with instructions to carry out attacks last year.

Bike swoop

Amanullah Khan, deputy superintendent of police in Mardan, told the BBC the capture on Monday was purely the work of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence service (ISI).

"This was all an ISI show," he said. "We got to the place after hearing a few gunshots."

He said he had recognised Libbi from photographs in newspapers.

Agents, some of whom had been wearing the all-encompassing robe worn by women in conservative Islamic families, stopped the motorbike and overpowered the driver, then fired some shots when Libbi ran away.

[Alouette]

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[Alouette]

He looks like he has vitiligo (the skin condition that Michael Jackson claims "turned him white")

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . fired some shots when Libbi ran away . . .

Ran AWAY?! What happened to the great spirit of "martyrdom"?

[Billthedrill]

They said he would not be handed over before being exhaustively questioned by local authorities.

Hmm...so call me Mr. Paranoid, but that doesn't sound entirely friendly.

[Paleo Conservative]

He looks like he has vitiligo (the skin condition that Michael Jackson claims "turned him white")

Are you sure? I thought his eye makeup was running.

[nuconvert]

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[gandalftb]

NBC is reporting that al-Libbi had a notebook with him that he tried to destroy but that was captured intact and given to the CIA.

[rdl6989]

Ran AWAY?! What happened to the great spirit of "martyrdom"?

Maybe he finally figured out that those 72 virgins (or was that Virginians) were Helen Thomas clones.

[SevenofNine]

Paging tomkow LOL!!!

[spinestein]

[Pakistani officials have ruled out his immediate extradition to the US. They said he would not be handed over before being exhaustively questioned by local authorities.]




I wonder if the Pakistani officials will "torture" him by making him wear a dog leash around his neck and women's panties on his head and make him stand in a "butt-crack pyramid" with his buddies.

Actually, I doubt it. They'll probably let him off easy with the old fashioned stuff.

[537cant be wrong]

doesn't sound friendly.


i for one certainly hope not.
when you try to blow up the president of the country you are tooling around in, rule #1 should be don't be caught with your burka down,
the pakistani techniques may be a tad bit harsher than
madam lindies were.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Hey, why isn't our CIA using Burkas? That may be a skill they need to assume. I can see the TV show now...
"BURKA CSI " OR " CIA BURKA".....
agents in New York and Miami capture terrorists who make the moves on them as they walk the streets in Burkas!

I think the perfect torture for this terrorist would be to be alone with Karpinski! She should immediately volunteer herself (or her shoplifted panties) to the Pakistani agents.

[Capriole]

It pleases me to consider what "exhaustively questioned" means when one is in the depths of a Pakistani prison. And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Sucks to be him right now!

[Natural Law]

Has anyone noticed a distinct lack of symetry in the facial-cranial bone structure of these goons?

[Alouette]

I think the perfect torture for this terrorist would be to be alone with Karpinski!

And the lovely Lynndie.

All of them naked.

Lynndie with the whip, and Janice with the panties.

[Vigilanteman]

He could be a good looking fella . . .

. . . with a rope around his neck and his feet dangling about two feet off the ground.

[El Gato]

Ran AWAY?! What happened to the great spirit of "martyrdom"?

That's for the cannon fodder, not for the leaders. They are "too valuable", at least in their own minds :), to become martyrs.

[El Gato]

Pakistani agents wearing burqas seized al-Qaeda suspect Abu Faraj al-Libbi by ambushing his motorbike in a rural town

You supposed he slowed down to check out the hot babes? :)

[El Gato]

Lynndie with the whip, and Janice with the panties.

I think I'd turn that around. PFC England has experience with the panties and the leash. General Colonel Karpinski looks more like the leather and whip type. Scary thought actually.