[Forgiven_Sinner]

The new info (to me) is that Khalid is in Diego Garcia. I had not seen that reported before. I'm not sure how good Asia Times sources are.

The author takes a rather pessimistic and anti-US stance. How would he know that all attacks are locally planned, rather than centrally? How would he know that the capture of various al-Qaeda leaders have not disrupted this network?

Take such comments with a box of salt.

[Cicero]

He is being held outside the U.S., and doubtfully in Guantanamo, which is too vulnerable to outsider peaceniks. Afghanistan and Diego Garcia have been two places mentioned.

As I recall, although the hydra had a habit of growing new heads when the old ones were cut off, the monster was eventually defeated. We will never eliminate all the bad guys, but we can weaken and scatter them, and eventually as they are seen to be ineffectual, people's minds will turn in some other direction and they will be starved of new recruits.

Anarchistic bomb-throwers represented a similar threat in the nineteenth century, but eventually the world moved on to other things.

[Ben Ficklin]

After the the pulled thread from last night, Asia Times should not be considered credible. That article stated that Khalid was killed in the Sept 02 raid. The zotted poster of that thread was trying to say that Khalid has been in custody since that raid.