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.
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