 "Ghailani has been handed over to US custody because he wasn't wanted in any crime over here," the Pakistani official, who declined to be identified, told AFP. He did not give any further details. Most have been handed to the United States and are thought to be held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "We have no information on Ghailani's whereabouts," a spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad said.
| At the bottom of the Marianas Trench will do, I'd think... |
Pakistani investigators told AFP that they transferred Ghailani to American custody despite earlier promising him that they would not do so. "He said he wouldn't be satisfied unless the person who was interrogating him takes an oath on the holy book (the Koran) that he would not be handed to the US," said another official speaking on condition of anonymity. Security sources said Ghailani was part of a "sleeper cell" and had received personal messages on computer discs from Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden ordering him to carry out new attacks.
| He'd already burned. He was wanted for his involvement in the embassy bombings. Nobody uses agents who've already been used as sleepers. Sleepers are supposed to become part of the national background noise, not have $5 million prices on their heads. |
When he was arrested he was drawing up plans for a missile strike on an airliner at Nairobi airport in Kenya as well for attacks on London's Heathrow Airport and US financial institutions, the officials said.
| He was doing that in his sleep, of course... |
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