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| Pakistan hunting for Abu Faraj |
| 2004-08-14 |
| A Libyan man believed to be the head of Al Qaeda's terror operations is the top target of Pakistani security forces hunting key operatives of Osama bin Laden's network, officials said Friday. Abu Faraj Farj, a former personal assistant of bin Laden, masterminded the two December attempts to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, said a senior intelligence official closely involved in the high-profile Al Qaeda crackdown. "Farj was a personal assistant of bin Laden and our information is he is the current top operational chief of the network," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 TW, the reason for your question suddenly dawned on me: "Farj is on the run with an Egyptian cohort, Hamza Rabia, the official said." Hopefully they're not talking about a division. |
| Posted by: Bryan 2004-08-15 1:15:11 AM |
| #3 Cohort (with apologies to Webster's Dictionary) - 1) One of ten divisions of an ancient Roman legion comprising at first 300, but later 500 to 600 soldiers. 2) Companion; accomplice (Generally used - as far as I know - in a negative sense.) |
| Posted by: Bryan 2004-08-15 1:09:55 AM |
| #2 Forgive my civilian ignorance, but what exactly is a cohort? Is it something like a brigade (which has lots and lots of soldiers in it, I believe) or more like a platoon? Or does it just mean evil minions? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-08-15 12:31:02 AM |
| #1 Good catch Dan. Farj heads Al Qaeda’s clandestine operational apparatus in Pakistan. Hmmm. I wonder what apparatus that could be? I've said it before and I'll say it again y'all. American pressure on Musharraf to crack down on Pakistan's homegrown terrorists, and to settle its border dispute with India, appears to mark the end of Musharraf's covert support of the likes of HUJI, HUM and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan's Jammu and Kashmir adventure. But what really has these groups in the bullseye is what Musharraf cannot risk: An attack on America to rival or surpass 9-11 which has been coordinated, if not planned, within Pakistan by ultras once covertly supported by the Musharraf regime. |
| Posted by: Robert Stevens 2004-08-14 3:36:56 AM |