U.S.: Senior al Qaeda leader captured in Afghanistan

[NOLADEM]

WE CAUGHT ANOTHER ONE (AGAIN) !

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan who escaped last year from Bagram prison has been captured, U.S. military sources said Monday.

Abu Nasir al-Qahtani was among six people arrested last Monday during a raid by coalition and Afghan forces in Khost province, the sources said.

A coalition military press release issued at the time of al-Qahtani's arrest described him only as a "known al Qaeda terrorist" and said he was taken into custody along with Saudi and Pakistani nationals. Al-Qahtani was one of four al Qaeda detainees who escaped from the high-security detention facility at the U.S. base in Bagram in July 2005.

The men later appeared in an al Qaeda video describing their detention and escape. Al-Qahtani went into the most detail about the escape, even drawing a map of the Bagram prison. He said that after sneaking off the base the four men eventually made contact with the Taliban.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/afghan.capture/index.html

[Donnachaidh]

1. I forgot -- is this the 736th Al Qaeda Number 2 guy?

I lost track :sarcasm:

[IndianaGreen]

9. I believe he is the 747th Al Qaeda Number 2

So many Number 2's to keep track of, at least 15,000 of them in Iraq alone!

[Drum]

2. ...*crickets*......nt

[central scrutinizer]

3. They have way too many #2 guys

They should trade some of them for cash, draft picks, and terrorists to be named later.

[xchrom]

4. not even worth my notice -- other than to say --

how many replacements for this guy has bush made?

[Eugene]

5. Seems like anybody who can make a video is a senior al-Qaeda guy.

[dicknbush]

6. Well what they really mean is that a "Senior" you know senior as in:

He is really old like 80 or something like that and they expect to catch many more "Senior" Al Quida leaders in the coming years!

[Ecumenist]

7. Here we go again....

Which number 1,2 or 3 grand Poobah Mr McBigLarge VIP type al qaeda member is this one?

[pinniped]

8. They got all the junior AQ guys already.

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[MrPrax]

10. Foul!!

"A senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan who escaped last year "

Do-Overs don't count!!!

[jokerman93]

11. I'm not so sure

Superficially this may look like another number two guy, but given the fact that he had detailed plans and was able to get out prison without bribing anyone, I'd say the Bushistas would have to bump him over to the "mastermind" category - again.
:woohoo:
We're winning the war on terror. I can feel it!
LOL
J

[merwin]

12. Correction... They RE-captured another #2

after they let him escape once. What is this... catch and release policework?