Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed arrested in Pakistan

Fox News...Tony Snow | 03/01/03 | Toonces T. Cat

[Toonces T. Cat]

03-01) 10:09 PST ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) --

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source told The Associated Press.

Mohammed, who is on the FBI's most wanted list, was among three people arrested in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, the official said

[dep]

and make sure that his diet is heavy in jimmy dean pure pork sausage.

dep

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

They should put this guy on a Navy ship, beat any information they can out of him, and make him take a walk. This guy doesn't need jail, he needs to be killed close to the battlefield.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Actually, Musharraf has been doing a great job.

Yes, it wojuld seem so, and under very difficult curcumstances -- his country is completely infested with these sub-humans.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep, here's more of that "nothing" (in the words of Tom Douchle) that Bush is accomplishing against terrorism.

[Dog]

Hell with a trial....he gets a tribunal.....after he gets a workout ....with the most rusty dull tools we can find!!!

[dep]

no. drowning is way too good for him. a little something involving an anthill might be good -- though i think that before he's put neck-deep in the sand, he needs to be sewn up in a hog's carcass. and maybe the proceedings taped for diaperhead teevee.

dep

[Dog]

That is the spirit dep....!!!!

[11th_VA]

Wonder how many U.S. taxpayer dollars this cost.

What's 3000+ American lives worth to you ?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Smoked another one out.

Let's see. Who was it that said we were going to smoke 'em out of their holes, get 'em running?

[AppyPappy]

Screw that. All I need is two starving pit bulls and a steak to shove up his robe.

[jwalsh07]

But only after he gives up the other assholes. Then you can have him!

[Franking]

I'm here in NYC, looking out my office window at the big WTC hole. Before we start on the [lame] new building, how about we just drop this guy in the pit, truck in loads of jagged fist-sized rocks, and solve the NYC budget crisis by charging people $1 to stone him. Then maybe loan him out to some NYC FD companies, on a leash like a pet monkey.

F

[Stultis]

I bet he will be on a military transport pretty quickly, headed for Gitmo.

I'm not sure they want to keep him at Gitmo. An "undisclosed" location, with controlled isolation where the interrogaters can start in on tinkering with his neurons, is much better. As much satisfaction as it might give to physically toture this P.O.S., his intelligence value is far too great for that. It'll take some months, but we'll doubtless put our best people on this and have him singing like a canary in the end.

Still, if it was me I certainly would be tempted to take him to Gitmo first, slap some duct tape on his mouth, and march him up and down the aisles for all the other inmates to see.

[vbmoneyspender]

I am all for a trial --- Red Queen style. First execute him, then try him.

[The Raven]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man U.S. authorities suspect was the mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., was one of three men arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source told The Associated Press.

Mr. Mohammed, who is on the FBI's most wanted list, was among three people arrested in a raid on a hide-out in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, the official said.


U.S. officials regard Mr. Mohammed as a key al Qaeda lieutenant and organizer of the terror mission that sent hijacked passenger jets crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing more than 3,000 people.

Mr. Mohammed, 37 years old, hasn't been charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, but he has been charged in a 1995 terror plot to bomb or hijack 11 U.S.-bound flights originating in Asian countries, including the Philippines.

He is one of the FBI's most-wanted terror suspects, and the U.S. government is offering up to $25 million for information leading to his capture.

Kuwaiti-born Mr. Mohammed is the uncle of convicted 1993 World Trade Center conspirator Ramzi Yousef. An older brother is a member of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network and another brother died in Pakistan, when a bomb he was making exploded.

A second man arrested in Saturday's raid in Rawalpindi was also of Middle Eastern origin but has not been identified. The Pakistani who was also arrested has been identified as Abdul Qadoos.

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Interior Ministry spokesman Iftikar Ahmad said Mr. Qadoos was linked to a terrorist organization, but he refused to identify it. He said Mr. Qadoos had received training in Afghanistan.

However, Pakistan's oldest and most organized religious group, Jamaat-e-Islami, said Mr. Qadoos was one of its members and that he had no links to al Qaeda or any other terrorist organization.

Local Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Mian Mohammed Aslam and Hanif Abbasi said at a news conference Saturday in Rawalpindi that Mr. Qadoos was wrongly arrested. They said the FBI conducted the raid and carried out the arrest.

A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy said he didn't know whether the FBI was involved but said on condition of anonymity: "We do have excellent cooperation with the Pakistanis. We provide technical assistance, but they conduct their own arrests."

"The Pakistani agencies have been at work tracking these people," the spokesman said. He said Mr. Qadoos was "picked up because of his association with al Qaeda."

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said a small number of FBI agents are in Pakistan but only to provide intelligence on al Qaeda or Taliban fugitives from neighboring Afghanistan.

However, Pakistani police and intelligence officials say FBI agents have been involved in nearly every important terror arrest in Pakistan.

The Pakistani government says it has handed over more than 420 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects to U.S. custody.

[strela]

(snicker)

[fooman]

Too easy. I want him interrogated. Mental fingerprinted. Lie detector, fast mri and drugged.

I want to break him down so that he will want to commit suicide.


Oh, and feed him pig phat until he talks.

[dep]

more i look into it, more i think that vlad the impaler is a victim of bad press -- he seemed pretty much to have the right idea about these guys.

dep

[Hoverbug]

What's 3000+ American lives worth to you ?

Amen!!!! Not counting the 1000s more that are saved by the capture of this guy and the rest of the WOT!!!

[Blue Scourge]

HA, I say we drop him off in Israel for a short stay, let the Mossad have a little talk with him. The Mossad has no reservations about doing what is needed.

Ahh, this sure takes that bitter taste of turkey out of my mouth. : )