Reid and Piglosi are greatly saddened.
Well, we had better stop using wiretaps right away as the House suggests.
We don’t want anymore headlines like this!
/s/
Don’t tell McCain, he thinks it is an outrage to use Guantanamo.
And we got the Intel via water-boarding or FISA?
Aggh, I could scream!
Sounds like the headline is misleading. The military apparently received custody from the CIA. No mention that the military captured the scumbag.
Cut its fingers off until it talks.
Better waterboard them until they talk then.......
“...announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to the Pentagon earlier this week and is being held at Guantanamo Bay,”....
Oh Oh!...here comes Nancy(stretchface) Pelosi to his rescue.
And was this guy uncovered due to testimony by a 22-year-old aspiring singer?
Go back to WWI - strap him down and apply just some pin pricks which pins have been laced with garlic. He will tell you everything. The fact that this was outlawed by the Geneva Convention post WWI is immaterial. He will recover and lead a full, productive prisoner life.
Reid and Piglosi are greatly saddened.
More...
Defense Department Takes Custody of High-Value al Qaeda Operative
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2008 - The Defense Department has taken custody of a “high-value” al Qaeda operative, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said today.
Whitman said that Muhammad Rahim is now in custody at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Rahim is a high-level member of al Qaeda and a close associate of Osama bin Laden. “Prior to his arrival in Guantanamo, he has been held in CIA custody,” Whitman said.
Rahim is from Afghanistan’s Nangahar province and had close ties to al Qaeda organizations throughout the Middle East. “He is one of (bin Laden’s) most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists,” Whitman said.
Rahim prepared the Tora Bora complex as a hideout for bin Laden, and assisted in al Qaeda’s exodus from the area in late 2001. He joined the terror organization in the mid-1990s, first procuring supplies and later as a courier. He personally carried messages from bin Laden to al Qaeda leaders.
“He had knowledge of or was involved in al Qaeda attacks planned against coalition forces in Afghanistan,” Whitman said. “At the time of his capture, he was providing support to anti-coalition militias, and groups allied with al Qaeda.”
Before 2002, Rahim procured chemicals for an al Qaeda plot targeting U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and he worked with al Qaeda paramilitary commanders to recruit individuals who had access to U.S. military bases.
Rahim will be treated appropriately and humanely, in accordance with policies and procedures for other DoD detainees at Guantanamo, Whitman said. “He will be treated in accordance with U.S. law and international obligations, including the convention against torture, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the Detainee Treatment Act, the Military Commissions Act and applicable DoD directives and instructions governing detainees operations,” he said.
This is the first transfer to Guantanamo since August. The last high-value detainee transferred was in April 2007. Sixteen high-value detainees are under DoD control at Guantanamo. There are 280 detainees at the facility.
“It’s always important to remember that intelligence is one of our most important tools in the war on terror,” Whitman said. “It’s been essential in developing our knowledge of al Qaeda’s structures, operations, finances, logistics, criminal activity, safe routes, safe havens and intentions to conduct further attacks.”
Yea!
Another victory that the dino media can not ignore!
Ok, your right they can ignore it. Until give him a high price lawyer and a media consultant. Maybe he can join Obamas’ church as a guest pastor.
Is this a number 3 again? I’m tired of number 3’s. Although, we did get a Number 9 recently...so we got that going for us.
I'm guessing he spilled the beans.
Have Pelosi and Reid yelled “Unfair” yet?
I love these delayed announcements. It means my tax dollars have been at work for a while previously...
These guys are TAUGHT to claim they were tortured. He will know that we are only using ‘soft’ techniques.
I doubt we will get much info, but we’ll take a lot of grief about his ‘torture’ and ‘kidnapping’ from our own Left and from the foreign leftists and organizations like Amnesty Internaitonal.
Please, oh please, please reassure me we haven’t done anything horrible and inhuman to this poor victim of Bush’s warmongering, nothing like [sob!] putting panties on his head, or making a dog bark at him, oh the humanity, and the little children, won’t someone please think of the children?