A leading financier of the al Qaida terrorist network has turned himself in at the airport in Kandahar. CNN, quoting U.S. military sources, reported early Wednesday that the as yet unnamed financier "literally showed up at the front gate ... and is now in custody." The financier's surrender came not long after American troops captured seven more prisoners. Military officials said it was not clear if the prisoners were from al Qaida or the Taliban, but they were captured in eastern Afghanistan, where defense officials believe al Qaida members are still at large. Nice to have the money guys. You get the checkbook, you get the organization.
Possible chem weapons discovered in Afghanistan...
US forces have discovered canisters at an undisclosed site in Afghanistan that from the outside appear to be chemical weapons. "There are canisters that have been found that ... externally .. appear to be weapons of mass destruction. But until we get into them, look at them, analyze it, find out what it was, we're not going to know," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. He said the canisters appeared to contain chemical agents. Not a surprise. There were reports last month of cannisters labeled "Sarin" gas. Turned out they were empty.
Al-Libi sings, Yemen plot uncovered...
Foreign Ministry officials in Yemen said information received from the United States came from interrogations of a senior al-Qaida figure, Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi, who is in U.S. custody, tipped them to the threat against the US embassy in Sana'a. Al-Libi is a Libyan who ran some of bin Laden's training camps. The plan called for detonating a truck loaded with a ton of explosives. That's one blocked. There will be others. Eventually they'll manage to get one to work again. But until then, let's keep pushing our advantage. Doesn't sound like al-Libi expects to be going anywhere, ever. Otherwise he wouldn't have broken omerta. |