There's also conflicting statements in the media about Al Libis background.
According to this post, Former CIA counterterrorism chief Vince Cannistraro said [Faraj] al-Libbi, unlike Shaikh Mohammed, never traveled to the West and "wouldn't know San Diego from Queens while the FBI site and most of the rest of the media correctly states that Anas Al-Libi had been living in the United Kingdom, which, IMO, counts as part of "the west."
Apparently, CNN has also repeated the interview with Hamid Mir where he's claiming that Anas Al Libi and Abu Faraj Al Libbi are two seperate people that have been mixed up.
These folks use so may different spellings for their names as well as aliases, is hard to figure out what's going on at times.
Seems that the US govt sources (and former CIA counterterrorism chief Vince Cannistraro), Hamid Mir, and NPR are correct on Faraj Al Libi.
He has not had reward put on him by the US (also claimed by some of the media) nor is he even on the FBI's top ten wanted terrorist list.
Basically, some of the MEDIA has screwed this all up, as usual, and has him mixed up with Anas so many have wrongly attributed Anas's background to Faraj and some of the posters on threads like Pakistan 'catches al-Qaeda chief' (#3, not bin Laden) are incorrect, and so are some of the pictures and/or articles they refer to.
That's what got me confused in the start.