[Lion's Cub]

FYI. So his instructions came from an email address in Pakistan, NOT Afghanistan.

[aristeides]

A few hours after Reid missed a Paris-Miami flight on Dec. 21, he sent e-mail to a Pakistani address from the business center of the Copthorne Hotel, where American Airlines had put him up after tight security prevented Reid from making the flight. In that e-mail he told the recipient of the difficulty of boarding and asks, “Should I go again?” An e-mail was sent back to Reid that said, “Yes, go again.”

That's right. Whoever it was in Pakistan was his superior in the organization and entitled to give him orders, and probably orders to a lot of other operatives in the organization. It's vital to identify him. Even if he won't talk, his records and computer files are likely to contain all sorts of valuable information. I wonder if he's Abu Zubaida.

[okie01]

"So his instructions came from an email address in Pakistan, NOT Afghanistan."

The Pakistan e-address could be a cutout. Just like Yahoo or Hotmail.

Thus, Reid's correspondent could have been anywhere -- Pakistan, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Even Washington D.C., for that matter.