| Depends on who you ask, I guess: "Hey, Abu! How's your interrogation goin'?" "Ow! Ow! [Whimper!]... Not so well!" |
Libbi, 28, who is said to be al-Qaeda's No. 3, had defied efforts to make him give details about its senior hierarchy, despite coming under physical pressure to do so, officials said on Saturday. More than a dozen low-key al-Qaeda targets were arrested in Pakistan last week thanks to information said to have been stored on Libbi's mobile phone. Yet early US and Pakistani hopes that he would tell them the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawihiri, were dashed. One senior intelligence official said: "So far he has not told us anything solid that could lead to the high-value targets. It is too early to judge whether he is a hard nut to crack, or simply that he doesn't know more than he has told us. They have tried all possible methods, from the 'third degree' to injecting him with | "More giggle juice, Abu?" "Yershhh, shank you!... Shay! Have you sheen my thumbnails?" |
| "Agent Starchedshirt, perhaps you should spend the day in the hotel bar? You might not want to see this!" "Ummm... Good idea. And thanks for the smelling salts! They helped a lot!" |
| "Neville, would you mind joining the Abu Faraj interrogation?" "Certainly, Alistair. I'll bring my polo mallet!" |