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| Kalid recently used messengers to communicate with Bin Laden | |
| 2003-03-06 | |
| Now in US custody at Bagram Air Base, "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed admitted he was in contact with Osama bin Laden," as recently as the past few weeks, a Pakistani intelligence officer said. "The contacts were through messengers - but he insisted that he was not aware of (bin Laden's) whereabouts." Have you, like, seen him recently, Khalid?
Much nicer than his new digs - and heh, heh, I still suspect much more roomy and spacious than Bin Laden's new digs. Storming with Kalashnikovs, flashbulbs and shouts were two dozen US and Pakistani intelligence commandos. The raiders [also] picked up Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi, a wanted Saudi terrorist who wired money to the hijackers; the "slow" Pakistani son of a local Islamic party leader; and a treasure trove of handwritten and electronic al-Qaeda data. Khalid was caught napping. Lucky for him, since he hasn't had a chance to get caught up lately. The man who led US and Pakistani operatives [to him] was an Egyptian nabbed on February 13 in the harsh southwest city of Quetta. US officials believe the Egyptian Muhamad Asad Abdel Rahman, is the son of blind cleric Omar Abdul Rahman, who was convicted of plotting to blow up the UN's in 1995. Khalid was one step ahead of the raiders when they stormed the Egyptians' hideout. Email correspondence and satellite phone calls from Khalid to Rahman helped CIA and FBI communications experts trace him to somewhere in the Islamabad-Rawalpindi region. Another phone call by Khalid on his satellite phone helped pinpoint him to leafy Westridge. Khalid was shifted between three separate safe houses in Rawalpindi during three days of interrogation in Pakistan before being flown to Bagram. A senior intelligence official confirmed Bagram as the destination, although Bagram spokesman Colonel Roger King would only say: "I can tell you that ... people will come to this location before going somewhere else." | |
| Posted by:Becky |
| #1 "Khalid was caught napping. Lucky for him, since he hasn't had a chance to get caught up lately." LOL! That's cruel, Becky -- very cruel. Our enemies should dread the inevitable day when we have all-female interrogation teams. |
| Posted by: Patrick Phillips 2003-03-06 10:20:58 |