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Just got this in on CNN News Alert;
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top al Qaeda leader sought in the war against terrorism has been captured and is in American custody, U.S. government sources told CNN on Friday.
Authorities refused to name the al Qaeda leader but said he was captured during the past week and that the man is one of the top 20 al Qaeda members sought by the U.S. government. They did say he was not Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or the terrorist group's operational leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Further details were not immediately available.
Another one bites the dust....must've been out of hellfire missiles this time. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - because it soooooo winds some of you up - the terrorists will be hunted down by the USA and her allies, and we will stop them, dead or alive.
Good guys 1, Al Queda 0
~~Belldandy~~
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top al Qaeda leader sought in the war against terrorism has been captured and is in American custody, U.S. government sources told CNN on Friday.
Authorities refused to name the al Qaeda leader but said he was captured during the past week and that the man is one of the top 20 al Qaeda members sought by the U.S. government. They did say he was not Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or the terrorist group's operational leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Further details were not immediately available.
Another one bites the dust....must've been out of hellfire missiles this time. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - because it soooooo winds some of you up - the terrorists will be hunted down by the USA and her allies, and we will stop them, dead or alive.
Good guys 1, Al Queda 0
~~Belldandy~~
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Rosalind wrote:
> Do you think this guy will get a fair trial. He has been pronounced a
> terrorist already.
I can't see him coming to trial for a long long time as he undoubtedly has a lot of knowledge that will be valuable to America, and everyone else. At the end of the day it's going to take more than a guess for America to have expended resources extracting this guy. You don't send out special forces snatch teams for just anyone.
The MI5 capture of those guys at the a week ago was well done as well, they've had a week to get intelligence from them, and stopped them before they even got past planning.
The difference in these two cases, from those in my original Justice post, is that it was possible to get them, where as those guys in the car would have required a massive operation, and would probably have killed them anyway. Would it have been better to let them go, with the chance they might not be found again and could commit more attacks ?
The US is not always so keen to fire off missiles. It's documented that, on 12/9/2001 the CIA pinpointed Mullah Omar - Bin Laden's #2 - travelling in a car convoy in Afghanistan, and even had a remote drone in range, but Rumsfeld vetoed the attack because lawyers told him it may not be legal to do so. Think about it - one hellfire could have got that man who has done so much, and will continue to do so.
And even if he was captured, and many other Al Queda commanders as well, they face probable death penalties eventually anyway - so is that any better other than it giving the illusion of legal killing ? I'm against the death penalty by the way...
~~Belldandy~~
> Do you think this guy will get a fair trial. He has been pronounced a
> terrorist already.
I can't see him coming to trial for a long long time as he undoubtedly has a lot of knowledge that will be valuable to America, and everyone else. At the end of the day it's going to take more than a guess for America to have expended resources extracting this guy. You don't send out special forces snatch teams for just anyone.
The MI5 capture of those guys at the a week ago was well done as well, they've had a week to get intelligence from them, and stopped them before they even got past planning.
The difference in these two cases, from those in my original Justice post, is that it was possible to get them, where as those guys in the car would have required a massive operation, and would probably have killed them anyway. Would it have been better to let them go, with the chance they might not be found again and could commit more attacks ?
The US is not always so keen to fire off missiles. It's documented that, on 12/9/2001 the CIA pinpointed Mullah Omar - Bin Laden's #2 - travelling in a car convoy in Afghanistan, and even had a remote drone in range, but Rumsfeld vetoed the attack because lawyers told him it may not be legal to do so. Think about it - one hellfire could have got that man who has done so much, and will continue to do so.
And even if he was captured, and many other Al Queda commanders as well, they face probable death penalties eventually anyway - so is that any better other than it giving the illusion of legal killing ? I'm against the death penalty by the way...
~~Belldandy~~
However kangaroo, at least there can be a fair and reasonable trial of his guilt. Not a bunch of Hellfires slamming into a car.
Truth, Justice & The American Way - Unless we don't like you, then we'll blow you up.
Truth, Justice & The American Way - Unless we don't like you, then we'll blow you up.
Do you think this guy will get a fair trial. He has been pronounced a terrorist already.
Capturing Al-Queda - A good thing.
Blowing them up with remote control missiles with no trial or due process - terrorist action.
I agree with Belldandy on this one, sorry.
Blowing them up with remote control missiles with no trial or due process - terrorist action.
I agree with Belldandy on this one, sorry.
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Yeah...
Just got this in on CNN News Alert;
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top al Qaeda leader sought in the war against terrorism has been captured and is in American custody, U.S. government sources told CNN on Friday.
Authorities refused to name the al Qaeda leader but said he was captured during the past week and that the man is one of the top 20 al Qaeda members sought by the U.S. government. They did say he was not Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or the terrorist group's operational leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Further details were not immediately available.
Another one bites the dust....must've been out of hellfire missiles this time. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - because it soooooo winds some of you up - the terrorists will be hunted down by the USA and her allies, and we will stop them, dead or alive.
Good guys 1, Al Queda 0
~~Belldandy~~
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top al Qaeda leader sought in the war against terrorism has been captured and is in American custody, U.S. government sources told CNN on Friday.
Authorities refused to name the al Qaeda leader but said he was captured during the past week and that the man is one of the top 20 al Qaeda members sought by the U.S. government. They did say he was not Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or the terrorist group's operational leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Further details were not immediately available.
Another one bites the dust....must've been out of hellfire missiles this time. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - because it soooooo winds some of you up - the terrorists will be hunted down by the USA and her allies, and we will stop them, dead or alive.
Good guys 1, Al Queda 0
~~Belldandy~~
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