Another Big Fish Caught
Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit linked to this. It's certainly worth a read:
The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay.
Abd al-Hadi was taken into CIA custody last year, it emerged from US intelligence sources yesterday, in a move which suggests that he was interrogated for months in a “ghost prison” before being transferred to the internment camp in Cuba.
Well well well, an al-Qaeda leader who used to be a major in Saddam Hussein's army? Think the media will point this out? (Rhetorical question, of course) No, they'll be wringing their hands about what kind of treatment this scumbag got while in our hands for the past year, and what kind of treatment he'll be getting at Guantanamo. Better make sure his air conditioning is working, guys.
Personally, I hope they got some good information out of him, and I don't care how they got it if it helps our side. Too bad the liberals don't think that way.
JASmius adds: Actually, the press will probably spin it that al-Hadi was "driven into the arms of al Qaeda by George Bush's criminal aggression against Iraq" - just another victim of "American imperialism" and how the War Against Islamic Fundamentalism is "breeding terrorists" and inciting more terrorism, not reducing it.
Here's a point to ponder: Would we have been able to capture this guy if our forces were no longer in Iraq? And another: What was al-Hadi doing in Iran in the first place? Doesn't that indicate collaboration between al Qaeda and the mullahs? And doesn't that build the case for attacking Iran to towering proportions?
If only some Republican above my pay grade would hurl that challenge at Harry Reid....
The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay.
Abd al-Hadi was taken into CIA custody last year, it emerged from US intelligence sources yesterday, in a move which suggests that he was interrogated for months in a “ghost prison” before being transferred to the internment camp in Cuba.
Well well well, an al-Qaeda leader who used to be a major in Saddam Hussein's army? Think the media will point this out? (Rhetorical question, of course) No, they'll be wringing their hands about what kind of treatment this scumbag got while in our hands for the past year, and what kind of treatment he'll be getting at Guantanamo. Better make sure his air conditioning is working, guys.
Personally, I hope they got some good information out of him, and I don't care how they got it if it helps our side. Too bad the liberals don't think that way.
JASmius adds: Actually, the press will probably spin it that al-Hadi was "driven into the arms of al Qaeda by George Bush's criminal aggression against Iraq" - just another victim of "American imperialism" and how the War Against Islamic Fundamentalism is "breeding terrorists" and inciting more terrorism, not reducing it.
Here's a point to ponder: Would we have been able to capture this guy if our forces were no longer in Iraq? And another: What was al-Hadi doing in Iran in the first place? Doesn't that indicate collaboration between al Qaeda and the mullahs? And doesn't that build the case for attacking Iran to towering proportions?
If only some Republican above my pay grade would hurl that challenge at Harry Reid....
posted by Jennifer at 3:05 AM
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