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| Confirmed: Yemen holds Jaber al-Baneh |
| 2004-01-30 |
| SANAA - Jaber al-Baneh, a Yemeni-born American terror suspect with a five-million-dollar US bounty on his head, is in custody in Yemen, the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) said Thursday. "Al-Baneh, who is accused by the United States of heading the ’Lackawanna six’ cell and has a five-million-dollar prize on his head, has been under interrogation in a Yemeni prison for several weeks," a security source was quoted as saying on the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s party. Wonder if they were doing the "interrogation" for us? The unnamed source did not say when or where the terror suspect was detained. Al-Baneh, born 39 years ago in the Yemeni province of Daleh, never returned to the United States from Afghanistan and was the only member of the cell still at large. US authorities offered a five-million-dollar reward for information leading to his capture. The GPC’s website did not say if negotiations were under way with the United States for his extradition. "Cash, check, or put it on your account?" But Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi is due in Washington on February 3 for talks with US officials expected to cover cooperation in fighting terrorism, according to a report Thursday in the official weekly September 26. Bringing him along as a gift? Kurbi will hold talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and FBI director Robert Mueller, said September 26, mouthpiece of the Yemeni defense ministry. Yes, the story said "mouthpiece". |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Damn! Did the KucinchBuchannan website finally explode? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-30 5:12:41 PM |
| #4 Well I agree with one thing which the article seems to imply, and that is that Democracy is BUNK! Of course it is much better than what currently passes for government in the Muslim world, but that is not saying very much. One man (or woman), one vote? Yeah right. That is just the right prescription for the bolsheviks to gain the upper hand, which they have in most democratic countries (the jury is still out on the US). Once the bolsheviks grab the reigns of power throught the various institutions of democratic nations, then they inevitably impose socialism on the rest. Why should the weak and feeble-minded be allowed to impose confiscatory legislation on the strong and enterprising just because they outnumber them? Do the mice on the Serengetti plains of Africa impose their will on the lions? |
| Posted by: jlc 2004-1-30 3:13:59 PM |
| #3 It's that ol' theory X vs theory Y thing OP. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-1-30 12:23:38 PM |
| #2 Is this going to be the new US Foreign Aid program? "We'll pay you $$$ for so-and-so, who we suspect of terrorism". I can see this creating a massive influx of "foreign terrorists" "wanted" by the United States, if we're not careful. Just round up a dozen or so street criminals, announce they are members of Al-Qaeda, and ask Uncle Sugar for a $million apiece for them. I have a better approach: "Turn over all your jihadi monkeyboys to us today, and we won't bomb your capital into stone-age rubble". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-30 11:41:52 AM |
| #1 How do you say "whatcha gonna do when they come for you" in Yemen-ese? |
| Posted by: Unmutual 2004-1-30 10:44:48 AM |