Pakistan backs away from reported terror suspect arrest (Pearlman-Gadahn)

CNN ^ | 3/11/10 | CNN

[jimbo123]

Authorities in Pakistan were backing away Thursday from reports that they had arrested Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda.

Two senior Pakistani government officials said Sunday that investigators in that country had arrested Gadahn, who has been indicted for treason in the United States.

U.S. counterterrorism officials told CNN, however, that they had received no indication from Pakistan that any American had been arrested. One official said there was "no validity" to reports of Gadahn's arrest. Another called the reports "bogus."

On Thursday, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN that Gadahn was not in custody. So did a senior provincial government official who previously had said that Gadahn had been detained.

[jimbo123]

The high-level backtracking means the fat jihadi boy really is in Pakistani custody and is being tortured right now with or without The Kenyan's approval. If Bin Laden and/or Mullah Omar are alive, they are in Karachi and Pearlman-Gadahn knows where they are.

[jimbo123]

ping

[jimbo123]

ping

[Clink]

I look forward to the capture of this fat f*ck more than any other Jihadi still breathing.

[jimbo123]

The Kenyan wants his October surprise. Bin Laden and/or Mullah Omar. And if they’re alive, they’re hiding in Karachi.

[Cold Heart]

I was thinking along those lines as soon as I heard there were statements of doubt the real pudgy achmed was in custody.

[jimbo123]

Obama needs Bin Laden and/or Mullah Omar in custody before the November mid-terms. And if it means torturing Pearlman-Gadahn to make it happen...

[Buckeye McFrog]

the longer they deny holding him the longer they can have a rendition partner waterboard him before the ACLU brings haebeus corpus

[the long march]

Nonsense. This is a rehash of the backing away they did when they realized they didn’t have him in the first place

[jimbo123]

The Pakis took the same approach when KSM was captured in order to torture him for several months before formally announcing the arrest.

[jimbo123]

Flashback:

Monday, September 09, 2002

Most wanted Al Qaeda suspects arrested from Karachi?

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-9-2002_pg1_1

ISLAMABAD: Has Pakistan arrested two of the most wanted Al Qaeda leaders and quietly shifted them to an unidentified place – possibly out of the country?

Eyewitnesses have told Daily Times Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Sheikh Ahmed Salim were arrested from Karachi. Sources said they were immediately handed over to the FBI.

There has been no official confirmation. Lt-Gen ® Moinuddin Haider, the federal interior minister, in fact, has denied such reports.

But the building in-charge of Jeelani Centre in Kharadar, a thickly populated area of Karachi, claims that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested from ‘Apartment number 715’ in a raid by the Karachi Police on June 16 this year. He immediately identified the man, without any hesitation, from a picture shown to him.

[the long march]

Actually KSM had eyewitnesses to his ‘capture’ not so with Gadahn.

Pakistani officials reversed course Monday on a recently captured American suspected of being a member of al Qaeda, saying the man is not the terror network’s U.S.-born spokesman, as they initially thought.

‘The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, the most-wanted American in the terrorist network. But authorities later said it was a case of mistaken identity and that they have a different American in custody. Pakistani intelligence officials instead identified him as Abu Yahya Majadin Adam.’ (Wash Times 3/9/10)

How many times have claims of this traitors capture been out there? It is kind of like getting Bin Laden or Omar or Zawahiri. We keep hoping but it hasn’t happened yet

[jimbo123]

From the CNN article:

U.S. counterterrorism officials told CNN, however, that they had received no indication from Pakistan that any American had been arrested.

This is full backtracking now. Now there is no American. This is BS of course. They have an American in custody with a name that is extremely similar to one of Gadahn's aliases. They have Gadahn and he is being tortured right now so Obama will have his October surprise.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping.

RECAP:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2466269/posts

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2466285/posts

SUSPECT ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN NOT GADAHN: OFFICIALS
DAWN.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | n/a
Posted on March 8, 2010 3:16:12 AM PST by Cindy

SNIPPET: “KARACHI: Pakistani security agents denied on Monday that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect.”

SNIPPET: “Some Pakistani officials had said on Sunday that Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a $1 million US bounty on his head, had been arrested on the outskirts of the city of Karachi.

But a senior government official and two security agents said on Monday the suspected al Qaeda operative picked up in Karachi was not Gadahn.

“Our initial impression was that the guy was Adam Gadahn but that information now looks incorrect,” said one security official, who declined to be identified.

The arrested man was believed to be an American who goes by the alias Abu Yahya, the officials said. Gadahn is known to have used a similar alias.”

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