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2008-01-07 India-Pakistan
Unconfirmed: Dr. Amin al-Haq. head of Bin Laden's "Black Guard" Reported Captured
Until it's confirmed we get the accordion lady.
A senior al Qaeda commander has been reported to have been captured in the Pakistani city of Lahore, according to a Pakistani newspaper. Dr. Amin al Haq, the security coordinator of Osama bin Laden’s Black Guard, “was apprehended from Lahore couple of days back,” The Nation reported, citing “credible Afghan sources.” Al Haq is said to be “under interrogation” at an undisclosed location.

The report of al Haq’s capture has not been confirmed, a senior intelligence official told The Long War Journal. US intelligence agencies are aware of the report.

Al Haq has a long pedigree with both the Taliban and al Qaeda. He was born in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, was educated as a physician, and practiced medicine in Pakistan. “He was associated with Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan headed by late Maulvi Younas Khalis, which joined the Taliban Movement in 1996,” The Nation reported. He “was also part of the Afghan delegation flown to Sudan in 1996 to bring Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan.”

On Dec. 19, 2000, al Haq was identified as a senior member of al Qaeda per United Nations resolution 1267. He accompanied Osama bin Laden during the 2001 battle at Tora Bora in Nangarhar province, and helped senior al Qaeda leaders escape the US and Afghan militia assault on the cave complex. During renewed fighting at Tora Bora in the summer of 2007, al Haq was reported to have been wounded and fled across the border into Pakistan's Kurram tribal agency.

As security coordinator for the Black Guard, it is believed al Haq would be in close proximity to Osama bin Laden. US intelligence believes Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan’s tribal agencies, a claim the Pakistani government has denied. Many of the senior al Qaeda leader captured in Pakistan since Sept. 11, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Musab al Suri, have been detained in Pakistan’s major cities.
The last I heard, which was awhile ago, Binny was holed up in Chitral. However, I also believe he travels with relative freedom throughout Pakistain and at any given time he's as likely to be in Lahore or Peshawar or Multan as he is to be in Chitral.
Several senior al Qaeda leaders -- such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Saif al Adel, and Walid bin Attash -- rose through the ranks in al Qaeda by serving in the Black Guard. A Special Forces raid against the Black Guard camp in Danda Saidgai in North Waziristan, Pakistan in March 2006 resulted in the death of Imam Asad and several dozen members of the Black Guard. Asad was the camp commander, a senior Chechen al Qaeda commander, and associate of Shamil Basayev, the Chechen al Qaeda leader killed by Russian security forces in July 2006.
This article starring:
ABU MUSAB AL SURIal-Qaeda
DR. AMIN AL HAQal-Qaeda
IMAM ASADal-Qaeda
KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMEDal-Qaeda
SAIF AL ADELal-Qaeda
SHAMIL BASAIEVal-Qaeda
WALID BIN ATTASHal-Qaeda
YUNAS KHALISHizb-e-Islami Afghanistan
Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan
Posted by Hupogum Angomotch4873 2008-01-07 00:32|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 Getting this guy would get us close to the leadership.....where he goes Osama goes.
Posted by Chenter Unimp7361 2008-01-07 07:58||   2008-01-07 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't this piece 5 months old?
Posted by JSU 2008-01-07 08:55||   2008-01-07 08:55|| Front Page Top

#3 No this piece appeared last night. Follow the link.
Posted by Chunky Phurong7960 2008-01-07 09:10||   2008-01-07 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Here goes... "I question the timing". I am hoping the NYT/CIA overt ops leak about moving into the Wazoo is connected to this and, obviously, the Bhutto assassination. I expect the ISI could put their hands on almost any of these guys whenever they want to.

Though I could be wrong.
Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-07 09:26||   2008-01-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Try this
Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-01-07 09:28||   2008-01-07 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry but as long as he is in Pakistani hands I don't consider him as captured.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-01-07 10:12||   2008-01-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 This makes me think that Osama spends the "plurality" of his time in a major urban center of Pak as well, rather than the tribal areas.

I wouldn't be shocked if we found him (or Zowie) in a commandant's quarters or military hospital in Rawalpindi.
Posted by charger 2008-01-07 10:18||   2008-01-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#8 A real blackguard, that.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-07 11:34||   2008-01-07 11:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Doc, Binny and "that crazy American kid" are hiding out in some TV studio off Hollywood and Vine living off hand-outs from Sean Penn, George Clooney and Susan Sarandon. The same people who hoaxed up the moon landing are the same ones behind this whole AQ thing. It just doesn't make sense, never has and never will. If we would only stay home and not bother anyone outside our borders we'd all be better off.
Posted by Ron Paul ">Ron Paul  2008-01-07 12:05||   2008-01-07 12:05|| Front Page Top

#10 That's why we keep you in the debates, Ron.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-07 14:40||   2008-01-07 14:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Why should any reasonable person not believe that Bin Laden is already dead? After all of these years, his "appearances" become less and less frequent and the technology involved moves BACKWARDS rather than forwards ("still" photos with voiceovers of questionable origin rather than actual video).
Posted by Crusader 2008-01-07 15:54||   2008-01-07 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 agree with Crusader. He's dead, but I really have no problem with him not being afforded martyr status. I think he'd be really bummed to know that he's being reduced to comic appeareances along side the American Dork.
Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-07 18:19||   2008-01-07 18:19|| Front Page Top

#13 48 hr hold on ululating. The Nation (Pak version) is the same one that said BB was killed with a *laser*, per Bob Owens....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-01-07 22:04||   2008-01-07 22:04|| Front Page Top

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