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2003-08-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by raptor 2003-08-15 7:09:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Should have been here yesterday, raptor, we had dancing girls and everything.
American officials on Thursday said Hambali had been captured in South East Asia earlier this week, with the co-operation of an unnamed regional government.
Reportedly Thailand.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said Jakarta would ask Washington for Hambali to be brought to stand trial in Bali despite the fact that Indonesia had no extradition treaty with the United States. Meanwhile, Hambali's current whereabouts remain unclear.
He's at one of the CIA's famous undisclosed locations being "questioned".
The Thai defence minister said Hambali had been flown back to Indonesia on Wednesday but Indonesian police said they had no knowledge of this. Intelligence sources say his whereabouts were discovered from information gleaned from the interrogation of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, a senior al-Qaeda member who was caught in March.
Or that's what we want them to believe.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-15 8:54:57 AM|| 2003-8-15 8:54:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hambali captured

Break out the thumbscrews...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-15 8:55:44 AM|| 2003-8-15 8:55:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jakarta would ask Washington for Hambali to be brought to stand trial in Bali despite the fact that Indonesia had no extradition treaty with the United States. - or Death Penalty? How's that Abu Bashir trial going? 12 yrs was it?

the answer is.....no

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-15 9:54:02 AM|| 2003-8-15 9:54:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like he got the attention he deserved ;-)

The search came to an end at an apartment building on the outskirts of Ayutthaya, a city only an hour's drive north of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, and a major tourist attraction with its dozens of ancient Buddhist temples.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Hambali was arrested after a tip off from Ayutthaya residents.

"We arrested the suspect after people notified police about the appearance of the foreigner. And after we checked his passport we found that he's the one that's wanted by several countries," Thaksin said during a visit to Sri Lanka on Friday, according to Thailand's state radio network.

Plainclothes officers smashed down the door of Hambali's one-room apartment Monday night and took him away after a violent struggle, residents in the building told The Associated Press. Hambali had lived in the building, where all the other residents are Buddhists, for only two weeks, they said.

A woman who lives across the hall from his apartment said she was returning home from work when she saw police massed outside his door. She hurried to her apartment, locked herself in and listened.

"Suddenly there was a commotion and I heard the sound of hammering on the door followed by sounds of punches - thuk, thuk, thuk," she said, refusing to give her name.

Another woman in the building identified a picture of Hambali as the man who lived in the apartment. She also spoke on condition of anonymity.

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-15 11:32:54 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:32:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 You ever notice how the ones who send the shahids to their deaths always get captured alive?

Posted by 11A5S 2003-8-15 11:39:57 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:39:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 11A5S: That's one of the perks of being a "mastermind".

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-15 11:45:33 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:45:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 He's too holy to fight himself.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-15 11:45:36 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:45:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I dunno, Steve. This one apparently TRIED to fight (for all of, oh, five seconds.) Give him an E.

E is for Effort, which Hambali demonstrated.
E is for electric chair, at which Hambali will be terminated.

Posted by Ptah 2003-8-15 12:55:03 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-8-15 12:55:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, when they start carving him up in that undisclosed location, can I have dibs on his head?

It would make a nice set with my Khmer Rouge skull, my Viet Cong ears and my Pathet Lao skin.....

Any idea of who to send this request to?

I assume the Indonesians will draw and quarter, behead, disembowel and burn this sucker at the stake.

Posted by SOG475 2003-8-15 3:55:23 PM|| 2003-8-15 3:55:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 You ever notice how the ones who send the shahids to their deaths always get captured alive?

I think some of these guys are arrested alive because the people making the bust are good at what they do - meaning that the target is caught with his pants down. Better that he's caught alive for interrogation than killed in a shootout.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-15 4:48:04 PM|| 2003-8-15 4:48:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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