THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last
week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in
the war on terror”. According to European intelligence experts,
however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command,
as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the
flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation.
Al-Libbi’s arrest in Pakistan, announced last Wednesday, was described
in the United States as “a major breakthrough” in the hunt for Osama
Bin Laden.

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i normally try to stay out of the OT/political post, BUT: didn't W
give up on ABL a year or 3 ago? kind of like the WMD? the europeans
are still laughing about the press club, and W looking under the table
for WMD.....
Drifter...