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Got Him, Now What?
msnbc - newsweek ^ | May 16 issue | By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Posted on 05/07/2005 11:04:58 PM PDT by Deetes

May 16 issue - Abu Faraj al-Libbi had no idea he was about to go down. Last Monday, the Qaeda operative, believed to be one of Osama bin Laden's closest henchmen, was hiding out in Mardan, a small frontier town in northwest Pakistan. As he rode along the streets on the back of a motorbike driven by another man, he came upon a group of women dressed head to toe in black burqas. Nothing unusual about that. Except that some of the women were actually men, Pakistani security agents concealing automatic weapons in the billowing folds. They had gone to Mardan after receiving tips from informants that "foreigners" were in the area. When al-Libbi reached his destination, the agents threw off their cover and rushed him. Shots were fired. Panicked, al-Libbi tried to run away. "I'm a jihadi! Protect me, help me!" he pleaded to pedestrians as he fled. No one came to his aid. He ducked into a house and locked himself inside a room. The agents lobbed tear gas through a window. Al-Libbi emerged, choking on fumes. It wasn't until later that his pursuers realized they had brought down the most wanted man in Pakistan.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allibbi; pakistan; qaeda
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1 posted on 05/07/2005 11:04:58 PM PDT by Deetes
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To: Straight Vermonter; Dog; TexKat

Newsweek spin Ping ...


2 posted on 05/07/2005 11:07:45 PM PDT by Deetes (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick)
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To: Deetes; Darksheare

NO ONE expects the Burqa'd Inquisition!


3 posted on 05/07/2005 11:11:36 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: Deetes; Squantos; Travis McGee; Lazamataz; yonif; SJackson; Dog Gone; blam
"Panicked, al-Libbi tried to run away. "I'm a jihadi! Protect me, help me!" he pleaded to pedestrians as he fled. No one came to his aid."

Required reading for the mothers of every suicide bomber sent to their senseless deaths by cowards who can't even handle a little tear gas...

4 posted on 05/07/2005 11:11:36 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Yes very nice reading there :)


5 posted on 05/07/2005 11:14:02 PM PDT by Deetes (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick)
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To: Deetes
"I'm a jihadi! Protect me, help me!"

I'm tempted to use a word, synonymous with cat, but I won't.

6 posted on 05/07/2005 11:15:34 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Bush is doing practically nothing to prevent hurricanes." Environmentalist Aimee Christensen)
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To: Southack

Teargas is nothing next to Texas cooking.


7 posted on 05/07/2005 11:16:03 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Deetes
Lock him in a room and play the Barney song all day, everyday, for the rest of his sad, pathetic life.
8 posted on 05/07/2005 11:17:30 PM PDT by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: Deetes

Thank GOD that the Paki's have him rather than us. No ACLU over there eh?!! No hurry to go get him either... Thank you again Pakastan for having the manhood to do unto as having been done unto!!

Best thing that arse-hole could have ever hoped for was for us to get him. Allah had no mercy for you did he Libbi? Oops, bad day continues! Ha ha!


9 posted on 05/07/2005 11:18:43 PM PDT by Danae ( Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
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To: Deetes

Take 'em all swimming in shark infested waters, or march them through a billabong or two in northern Australia.


10 posted on 05/07/2005 11:20:54 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: DTogo

I agree , the coalitions of Allies are being entirely too nice , too humane , with these devils.
They all ought to be unable to sleep at night thinking of the fates that await them if and when they are caught.

Not some cushy prison cell with 3 square meals a day.


11 posted on 05/07/2005 11:34:20 PM PDT by injin
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To: Deetes

"Panicked, al-Libbi tried to run away. "I'm a jihadi! Protect me, help me!" he pleaded to pedestrians as he fled. No one came to his aid."

Excellent!


12 posted on 05/07/2005 11:34:43 PM PDT by jocon307 (Irish grandmother rolls in grave, yet again.)
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To: DTogo
The coward ran and hid begging others to protect him. This is the Islamic hero that sends others to their death.
Information is on it's way. They had to send out for the Drano they need for his enema.
13 posted on 05/07/2005 11:40:03 PM PDT by oldenuff2no (Proud Nam Vet)
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To: patton
Teargas is nothing next to Texas cooking.

Hey, Don't Mess with Texas!!

14 posted on 05/08/2005 12:13:13 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: jocon307

why aren't they the cream of the crop... the fearless leaders...? good to hear he ran squaking like a chicken... lmao


15 posted on 05/08/2005 12:16:27 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: TexKat
I drove accross Texas a couple of weeks ago - at, um, excessive speeds.

Then I got stopped just shy of Texarkana - for 81 in a 75.

The nice policeman gave me a warning. LOL.

(i was doing 110 - when he clocked me. Anyone believe 140?)

16 posted on 05/08/2005 12:23:32 AM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Deetes

I say we should pull all stops on this jackass - put panties on his head.


17 posted on 05/08/2005 4:15:49 AM PDT by Jaysun (The road to despotism is paved with "fairness")
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To: Jaysun

They will probably have it on FOX live .lol...


18 posted on 05/08/2005 4:18:43 AM PDT by Deetes (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick)
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To: Deetes
Yet the arrest is also a reminder that the White House still has not found an answer to one of the terror war's most difficult questions: what will the United States ultimately do with the dozens of captured Qaeda leaders after they have exhausted their usefulness as informants?

Most have been KILLED, a distinct form of "bringing them to justice". The rest are more useful alive because the enemy can never know when they are talking or not. This is an attempt to paint the WOT as a useless enterprise, but it won't work.

19 posted on 05/08/2005 4:39:20 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: King Prout

"NO ONE expects the Burqa'd Inquisition!"

Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.


20 posted on 05/08/2005 4:55:34 AM PDT by cowtowney
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