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The 'Most Prolific' Detainee
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/883kzmtj.asp ^ | Thomas Joscelyn

Posted on 08/30/2009 7:50:31 AM PDT by ventanax5

On March 1, 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the principal planner of the September 11 attacks, was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. U.S. interrogators quickly went about the business of getting him to talk, and for good reasons. KSM's operatives were already here, inside America, planning attacks.

Shortly after KSM was detained, an Ohio-based truck driver named Iyman Faris was arrested by the FBI. Faris had reportedly been under suspicion beforehand, but U.S. authorities suddenly determined that they had to arrest him. It turned out that Faris, an al Qaeda-trained sleeper agent, had been dispatched to the United States by KSM to plot attacks on landmarks in the New York area, including the Brooklyn Bridge.

Then, in late March, a young Pakistani man named Uzair Paracha was arrested. He had been working out of an office in Manhattan's Garment District for a company owned by his father, Saifullah Paracha. KSM wanted Uzair to facilitate the entry of al Qaeda operatives and use the Parachas' import-export business to smuggle explosives into the United States.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: sourcetitlenoturl; waterboarding

1 posted on 08/30/2009 7:50:31 AM PDT by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5

A CIA “Job Well Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” is the only thing you’ll hear from me on this one.


2 posted on 08/30/2009 8:09:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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