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Armed Americans arrest arrest al-Qaeda suspect in Somalia: witnesses
Agence France-Presse
| 3/19/03
Posted on 03/19/2003 4:30:11 AM PST by kattracks
Six unidentified armed Americans have apprehended a presumed Yemeni national, suspected of having links to al-Qaeda, from a hospital in Somalia's capital and flew him out of the country.
On Tuesday the six men, accompanied by members of a Somali militia group, took the man from Kaysaney hospital. Staff named him only as Issa and said he was carrying a South African passport.
"The Americans with a Somali translator came with details of the man including his photograph and fingerprints," a nurse at Kaysaney hospital said Wednesday.
According to several sources in Mogadishu, the detained man is thought to have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
The United States has no diplomatic representation in Somalia. The US embassy in Nairobi declined to comment on the reports.
In Nairobi, anti-terrorism unit police chief Malhew Kabetu said "there have been arrests" but declined to provide further details, or to say whether any of those arrests had taken place in Somalia.
In November last year, terrorists presumed to be linked to al-Qaeda blew up a hotel used by Israeli tourists near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, killing 18 people -- including themselves -- and tried in vain to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet.
Sources in Mogadishu said more US agents arrived there on Tuesday.
"Those who arrested the Yemeni arrived from Nairobi a day earlier and their plane stayed overnight at Aisaley airport which is not far from the hospital," a Somali militiaman at the airport said.
"The Yemeni was then flown to Nairobi," he added.
Newspaper reports in Mogadishu said local police had a few days earlier foiled an attempt to kidnap Issa, which left the man wounded and requiring hospital treatment.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedasomalia; somalia
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To: Angelus Errare
Didn't the article say he was from Yemen??
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posted on
03/19/2003 8:00:49 AM PST
by
Dog
(8 hrs and change to go..... then NO Christy Lane commericals.....)
To: AppyPappy
Sounds like great screenplay material. Those sh#ts from Hollywood will probably turn it into a made-for-cable-TV movie. Now, who would play the arrestee??
42
posted on
03/19/2003 8:01:20 AM PST
by
RightField
(the older you get ..... the older old is ......)
To: kattracks
It could have been a rescue. Issa could have been a CIA operative that was uncovered. An attempt was made on him, that failed, and he was pulled out.
We'll probably never know.
43
posted on
03/19/2003 8:04:37 AM PST
by
tje
To: kattracks
Kudos to Delta and CIA.
44
posted on
03/19/2003 8:05:46 AM PST
by
jwalsh07
To: kattracks; Willie Green; AdamSelene235; Bush2000; Travis McGee; All
To all you laid off techies who are griping about there not being "any jobs", please note that those 6 Americans may very well have made their own jobs by going bounty hunting for any number of $20 Million men on our Most Wanted list.
... and apparently they got one of them.
45
posted on
03/19/2003 8:13:31 AM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: kattracks
Somalia says Qaeda suspect handed to U.S. agents
By James Macharia
NAIROBI, March 19 (Reuters) - Somali militiamen handed a wounded Yemeni al-Qaeda suspect over to U.S. FBI agents who flew him to an unknown destination, a Somali official said on Wednesday.
Hassan Mohamed, information officer in the prime minister's office, said Somalia's transitional government (TNG) was not involved in the arrest.
The TNG controls only parts of the capital Mogadishu and pockets of the rest of the war-torn country. Areas outside its control are in the hands of rival warlords.
Mohamed said the Yemeni national was captured by militia loyal to one of the country's several warlords at a hospital north of the capital Mogadishu.
He was then handed over to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents waiting at a nearby airport.
"We were informed by hospital officials that one man of Yemeni nationality was arrested at the Kaysaney hospital in the northern part of Mogadishu," Mohamed told Reuters by telephone.
"He was arrested by the militia of the warlord Dheere, and taken to a nearby airport where about four or five American FBI agents were waiting in an aircraft and took him away."
It was not known where the suspect had been taken, he said.
Mohamed said he did not know the name of the Yemeni national, but sources in the capital had informed him that the man was suspected to be linked to the Islamic militant group al-Qaeda.
Somali officials said the Yemeni national had been kidnapped by militias and wounded in a gun battle as police tried to rescue him from the kidnappers.
"Police rescued him but he was wounded in the process and he went to the Kaysaney hospital, where militia of the warlord Dhere took him and handed him over to some white men, who were either Israelis or American," Mohamed said.
Somalia, torn apart by factional fighting since the overthrow of military ruler Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, is seen as a potential hideout to operatives linked to extremist groups.
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posted on
03/19/2003 8:14:38 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/terroristcorecard/index.html)
To: AppyPappy
"Candygram"Candygram for Mongo....
To: Straight Vermonter
Kenya says it has Qaeda suspect seized in Somalia
NAIROBI, March 19 (Reuters) - Kenya said on Wednesday it had arrested a suspected al Qaeda member for questioning over terrorist attacks in east Africa.
The country's internal security minister Chris Murungaru said in a statement that the suspect had been arrested in a joint effort by Kenya security forces and "peace-loving" leaders in neighbouring Somalia.
"Kenya police have in their custody a suspected al Qaeda operative for questioning over multiple terrorist attacks in east Africa," Murungaru said.
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posted on
03/19/2003 8:16:21 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/terroristcorecard/index.html)
To: MortMan
darn you
To: null and void
Somalia GNP just went up by, about, say, $5 million...
50
posted on
03/19/2003 8:19:27 AM PST
by
ken5050
To: AppyPappy
no not candygram, how about 'landshark' hehehe, remember that one from SNL.
To: AppyPappy
hee hee, I always pull the candygram on my kids. I need to find it on tape so they can see what's so funny to me and the Mr.
52
posted on
03/19/2003 8:28:22 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(Pray for our troops, our President, our country.)
To: eyespysomething
Your chillins haven't seen Blazing Saddles???
BAD MOM!!!
To: null and void
Hey they're only 1 1/2. 3 and 7 (and I'm scared the 7 y.o. would go to school repeating lines, like he did Monty Python to his kindergarten teacher)(with a fake British accent)
Don't worry, they will be exposed to all the cultural grandeur of Mel Brooks. lol
54
posted on
03/19/2003 8:42:02 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(Pray for our troops, our President, our country.)
To: eyespysomething
Wellll, OK...
55
posted on
03/19/2003 8:44:01 AM PST
by
null and void
(wait 'til the youngest is 2...)
To: eyespysomething
...But you could start them on Red Dwarf now...
To: kattracks
I think what you are seeing here are the results of
Khalid Mohammads "cooperation" and the documents he possessed when he was captured.
To: oldcomputerguy
Or the cooperation of one of the many others...
58
posted on
03/19/2003 9:07:19 AM PST
by
EaglesUpForever
(boycott French, German, and Canadian products)
To: FreePaul
Perhaps the Pentagon should take over the State Department's duties.
59
posted on
03/19/2003 9:09:10 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: glock rocks
"these boys were not just looking for a ham sammich." Yup, and they found a turkey instead.
60
posted on
03/19/2003 9:21:32 AM PST
by
blam
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