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Home Front: WoT
US Recruit Reveals How Al Qaeda Trains Foreigners
2009-07-26
Posted by:Frozen Al

#8  So if he looks like a 'tard, walks like a 'tard, and talks like a 'tard, what to you get?
Posted by: texhooey   2009-07-26 22:57  

#7  More background on him here.
Posted by: tipper   2009-07-26 19:55  

#6  TOPIX > DOZENS DEAD AS "NIGERIAN TALIBAN" [Radic Sect] ATTACKS POLICE STATION. Approxi 39 persons repor killed.

* REDDIT > RUSSIA-CHINA WARN US THAT ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN NUKES MEANS "WORLD WAR"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-07-26 19:32  

#5  The AP version couldn't resist a dig at the Bush Admin on enhanced interrogations, ignoring the fact the others aren't US citizens and hardened terrorists:

When the American-born al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas was captured in Pakistan late last year, he wasn't whisked off to a military prison or a secret CIA facility in another country to be interrogated.
Instead, the itinerant terrorist landed in the hands of the FBI and was flown back to New York to face justice.
Months before President Barack Obama took office with a pledge to change U.S. counterterrorism policies, the Bush administration gave Vinas all the rights of American criminal suspects.
And he talked.
While an American citizen captured in Pakistan certainly presents a unique case, the circumstances of Vinas' treatment may p oint to a new emphasis in the fight against terror, one that relies more on FBI crimefighters and the civilian justice system than on CIA interrogators and military detention.
"This was by the numbers. It was a law enforcement operation and it worked," said a senior law enforcement official, one of several authorities who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to publicly discuss the case.
The official said Vinas provided "an intelligence gold mine" to U.S. officials, including possible information about a suspected militant who was killed in a Predator drone strike last November.
Another law enforcement official said that under questioning, the 26-year-old Vinas gradually provided a "treasure trove" of information, allowing U.S. counterterrorism officials to peer deep inside the inner workings of al-Qaida.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091   2009-07-26 18:54  

#4  ION WAFF > MULLEN: AL QAEDA TRYING TO GET NUKES
[wreak havoc across the World espec agz America].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-07-26 18:46  

#3  Unintentional irony alert:

"The third Qaeda class offered an introduction to rocket-propelled grenades. Shortly after, Mr. Vinas graduated from terror school. (Other classes offered instruction in forgery, poison and advanced bombs. None mentioned the Geneva Conventions or the treatment of prisoners and civilians, the summary notes.)"
Posted by: Pappy   2009-07-26 16:54  

#2  Geez, the Times reveals enemy tactics. That's gotta be a first.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-07-26 16:01  

#1  from behind, I'll bet
Posted by: Frank G   2009-07-26 15:55  

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