Posted on 10/15/2006 5:34:14 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A SUSPECTED al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret US jail for the past year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported today.
Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told El Pais.
A spokesman for the US embassy in Spain declined to comment on the report.
Setmarian's 2005 capture was reported in May of this year after the United States put a $5 million bounty on the head of the alleged founder of al Qaeda's Spanish network.
A photograph of the red-haired Setmarian has been removed from the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence's most-wanted web page.
Pakistan has not answered requests from Madrid about the whereabouts of Setmarian, wanted in Spain for allegedly training September 11 hijackers in Afghanistan and ordering Madrid commuter train attacks that killed 191 people, according to El Pais.
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Leni
He will eventually be shipped to Gitmo so he can spend some quality time with his friends.
Now that's torture!
And fatten him up, too.
The perp.
Where else would they put him?
He certainly deserves the comfy chair.
I think he looks a bit like Benny Hill.
These articles make capturing terrorist out to be some sort of bad thing. I'm feeling better knowing that this mope is off the streets frankly. And Frank does too.
The first rule of FIGHT CLUB is you DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.
The point I belive is , Is he in a secret jail or is his location just being kept secret?
I believe the latter and I believe its probably a good idea.
This whole thing about secret jails is way overblown.
Isn't that special .. the leftist group Amnesty International is trying to get him freed
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Matt Lauer and other left wing liberal socialist pinko commie geeks are deeply disappointed.
Is the article saying that we should be concerned for the safety and wellbeing of this guy because the bad Americans have imprisoned him? I'll bet he hasn't blown up any trains since beginning his residency at the crossbar hotel in November 2005.
ping.....Was this well known? I don"t remember reading this.
MITP Terrorism Knowledge Base
http://www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=6065
Nasar, Mustafa Setmariam
Aliases: Abu Musab al-Suri, Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, Mustafa Sitmaryan Nassar, Umar Abd al-Hakim
Group: al-Qaeda
Role: Member
Current Location: Imprisoned (unknown)
Biography: Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri and Umar Abd al-Hakim, was a key figure in al-Qaeda before his apparent capture in Pakistan in November 2005. Nasar was born in 1959 in Syria where he joined the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, a fundamentalist organization, was heavily repressed by the Syrian government, prompting Nasar to write a book that would make him famous in Islamist circles, “The Syrian Experiment.” In the book, written under the pseudonym Abu Musab Suri, Nasar issued a call to action against the ruling Asad regime in Syria. He has also written under the pseudonym Umar Abd al-Hakim.
Nasar, a Spanish citizen by marriage, formerly directed and taught at terrorist training camps in Afghanistan where he met with Usama bin-Laden and was known to be an expert in the use of poisons.
Nasar moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 where he served as a European intermediary for al-Qaeda. He traveled widely to Europe and Afghanistan during the late 1990s before finally moving his family to Afghanistan in 1998.
Prior to September 11, 2001, Nasar tried to organize his own extremist group, but following the attacks, he pledged his loyalty to Usama bin Laden as a member of al-Qaeda. Nasar worked closely with Midhat Mursi al-Sayid ‘Umar (a.k.a. Abu Khabab al-Masri) to train extremists in poisons and chemical during his time in Afghanistan, and was also involved in training at the al-Ghuraba terrorist camp.
Nasar was indicted in Spain in 2003 for training al-Qaeda “sleeper” agents to be sent to Spain, Italy and France, and the U.S. Government offered a $5 million reward for his capture. He is viewed by American intelligence officials as a “propagandist,” a man valuable for his wealth of influence and contacts within the Islamist terrorist movement but not seen as an actual planner of terrorist attacks. Reports claim that he had a close relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and was operating out of Iraq at some point, yet these reports have been denied by some American sources. Other unconfirmed press reports suggest that he may have had a role in the March 11, 2004 Madrid Bombings.
In November 2005, Nasar was reportedly captured in Pakistan. Pakistani officials denied the reports, but US sources acknowledged that he had been taken into custody.
In March 2006, Nasar’s name was taken of a list of the State Department’s most wanted terrorists. Oddly, his name was not added to the list of captured terrorists as is the case with most other high-profile individuals. Nevertheless, Nasar is believed to be in US custody in an undisclosed location.
A better place to hide him would be on Chris Mathews' Panel.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Someone have a link?
Thanks.
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