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India-Pakistan
Arrest of teenykiller leads to his controller
2008-01-20
Pakistani security agents have arrested a youth who said he had been trained as a suicide bomber to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had other militants failed to kill her, in the first arrests in the case, a security official said.
We had this nasty child yesterday.
The 15-year-old and his militant "handler" were arrested in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan on Thursday night. The teenager, identified as Aitezaz Shah, told interrogators he would have been "next in line" to kill Bhutto if another team had failed on December 27, the security official said on Saturday. The youth told interrogators he prepared for his mission in a stronghold of al Qaeda-linked militant leader Baitullah Mehsud in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, said the official who declined to be identified.

The official said the "handler", identified as Sher Zaman, was the more important catch. "He is the real catch who can give us more clues," the official said.

The government said Mehsud was behind Bhutto's killing. CIA Director Michael Hayden, in an interview with the Washington Post published on Friday, blamed Mehsud for Bhutto's killing. Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz and his ministry's spokesman said they had no information about the arrest of the two.
The interior minister is always the last to know.
The security official said Shah came from another northwestern district, Mansehra, but had been brought up in the southern city of Karachi.
Posted by:Fred

#3  The interior minister is always the last to know

cuz usually they're involved, it seems
Posted by: Frank G   2008-01-20 10:08  

#2  Variant of Chinese water torture, substituting that acid they're so big on throwing in women's faces over there.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2008-01-20 08:45  

#1  Whatever they do, I sure hope it doesn't involve waterboarding. That would be cruel and inhumane. Of course, to be effective, it would have to involve spiked testicle clamps and a blowtorch. Or money and virgins.
Posted by: gorb   2008-01-20 03:10  

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