[piasa]

"I asked specifically about an al Qaeda member detained in Khuzdar, Pakistan, in July 2002. I had been trying to obtain additional information about this detainee since March, when the Pentagon released a provocative "Summary of Evidence" describing his activities. It describes him as a former member of the Iraqi army who was recruited by the Taliban in Baghdad in 1994. He joined al Qaeda, lived at an al Qaeda camp, and received payments from Osama bin Laden. According to the Pentagon document:

From 1997 to 1998, the detainee acted as a trusted agent for Usama Bin Ladin, executing three separate reconnaissance missions for the al Qaeda leader in Oman, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars.

A Musharraf spokesman put me on the phone with Major General Shaukat Sultan, a spokesman for the Pakistani army. Sultan said he vaguely remembered the capture, and promised to provide additional details in the coming days."

[piasa]

This article mentions the detainee in question:

The Mother of All Connections (New evidence of collaboration between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda)"

[Fedora]

Thanks! I find the timing intereting: Yossef Bodansky reports that on August 31, 1998 Hassan al-Turabi received approval from Iraqi VP Ramadan for a request that in the event Al Qaeda had to vacate Afghanistan it could rebase in Iraq. Bodansky describes relations between AQ and Iraq re-opening at this time as a function of rapprochement between the Saudis and Iraq.

[Dog]

Khuzdar, Pakistan is north of Karachi..

Cap see post 9.....we have a mystery guest in custody.