Posted on 08/17/2006 9:02:48 AM PDT by Republican Red
Gretchen Peters and Habibullah Khan Report:
A senior al Qaeda commander allegedly tied to the London airplane bomb plot has been arrested in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence and law enforcement officials have told ABC News. Matiur Rehman, one of the most wanted men in Pakistan, is known to have met with the alleged plot ringleader Rashid Rauf, according to the officials.
Rehman’s capture could provide the most important leads in months to the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s top two leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. Rehman was believed to be in frequent contact with Zawahiri.
Rehman was taken into custody in the southern Punjab city of Bawalpur, the same town where alleged London plot ringleader Rashid Rauf was arrested last week. ABC News saw a copy of the police report on Rehman, with an attached copy of his photo.
Pakistani officials told ABC News earlier that 29-year Rehman was known to be planning a terror spectacular to mark the fifth anniversary of the 9/ll attacks, and the London plot may have been it.
ABC News consultant Alexis Debat, a terrorism expert at the Nixon Center in Washington D.C., says, "[Rehman] is the interface between al Qaeda's leadership and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Pakistani militants who are able to provide the muscle for al Qaeda's operations not only in Pakistan but around the world."
A lead is a lead.
Unless it was under an alias, I don't think I've seen this news.
Hopefully the Pakistani constitution will prevent this man from being tortured./sarc
Excellent!
its bust out the car battery and jumper cables time for his scumbag in the pakistani prison.
So, how many TV hours of coverage will this get, compared to a ten-year murder case?
Let the torture begin. Where is Lindy England when you need her?
I don't know how to post pics on FR but here is a link with a pretty decent photo of the scumbag.
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2006/08/top-al-qaeda-man-in-pakistan-nabbed.html
They should put Lindy on the next $100 bill.
Perhaps, or at least give her a gig in Pakistan. Apparently she is the most cruel and viscious inquisitor since Ghengis Khan.
Is Rehman a Pakistani surname?
Break out the waterboard. Hajji motherf&*%#@'s hate the waterboard.
I'm sure that the Pakistanis just happened to stumble across this guy while hunting down members of Kashmir terror cells in Pakistan... ;')
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