## Bush called him "Al-Qaeda top general”...but is that true?
OceanDrive
09-05-2005, 02:28
May 08, 2005
THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”.
According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ No.3 in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation.
Al-Libbi’s arrest in Pakistan, announced last Wednesday, was described in the United States as “a major breakthrough” in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Bush called him a “top general” and “a major facilitator and chief planner for the Al- Qaeda network”. Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, said he was “a very important figure”. Yet the backslapping in Washington and Islamabad has astonished European terrorism experts, who point out that the Libyan was neither on the FBI’s most wanted list, nor on that of the State Department “rewards for justice” programme.
Another Libyan is on the FBI list — Anas al-Liby, who is wanted over the 1998 East African embassy bombings — and some believe the Americans may have initially confused the two. When The Sunday Times contacted a senior FBI counter-terrorism official for information about the importance of the detained man, he sent material on al-Liby, the wrong man.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
Times Newspapers Ltd.
OceanDrive
09-05-2005, 02:34
where did I see that before? ....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2003/05/03/wbush03.jpeg
THE LOST PLANET
09-05-2005, 02:49
Bush's approval rating has been sliding, his cabinet will spin any small success into a major victory in an attempt to counter this. With the headlines full of daily death in Iraq and no end in sight they will make full advantage of the fact that most Americans take no notice of European news sources and tend to believe anything the Bush administration claims.
...it seems the fellow was in charge of both the coffeepot and the photocopier :eek:
Armandian Cheese
09-05-2005, 05:27
With it's vital coffee and photocopier services disrupted, Al-Quaeda is finished! How can you spread mass chaos and murder without Folger's in your cup? IMPOSSIBLE!
Hammolopolis
09-05-2005, 05:31
With it's vital coffee and photocopier services disrupted, Al-Quaeda is finished! How can you spread mass chaos and murder without Folger's in your cup? IMPOSSIBLE!
Just imagine if he had been in charge of the fax machine! :eek:
PC Load letter? What the fuck does that mean!?
Ernst_Rohm
09-05-2005, 05:44
i've just come to assume that "the number 3 man in al quaeda" is just code for whomever of some importance has been caught recently... maybe i'm just cynical... sometimes i wonder if al queada is really even an organization, or just a group of shared beliefs amoungst a broad spectrum of radical islamist jhaddi... meh what do i know.
The Cat-Tribe
09-05-2005, 05:45
...it seems the fellow was in charge of both the coffeepot and the photocopier :eek:
:D
BerkylvaniaII
09-05-2005, 05:57
Well, at least this fiasco of an administration is mixing it up a little. Used to be when the Bush numbers wavered, suddenly the terror warning level shot up. At least we're now getting a little carrot instead of the big stick.
Powell of DEN
09-05-2005, 06:08
Well, at least this fiasco of an administration is mixing it up a little. Used to be when the Bush numbers wavered, suddenly the terror warning level shot up. At least we're now getting a little carrot instead of the big stick.
Ah contrare, mon frair. We are getting the big stick.
If you pause ever so briefly, you can feel the neo-cons shoving it up our collective......
BerkylvaniaII
09-05-2005, 06:10
Ah contrare, mon frair. We are getting the big stick.
If you pause ever so briefly, you can feel the neo-cons shoving it up our collective......
Hmm, well, true. Still, perhaps now it's at least ribbed for our pleasure?
Harlesburg
09-05-2005, 06:42
They have been beating that guy up thats not nice! :(
Sonho Real
09-05-2005, 08:33
...it seems the fellow was in charge of both the coffeepot and the photocopier :eek:
lmao.
Volvo Villa Vovve
09-05-2005, 11:28
Just imagine if he had been in charge of the fax machine! :eek:
PC Load letter? What the fuck does that mean!?
Office Space Really Really GOOD:)
Well know I have to say something that actually have with the thread to do. Well it just ironic that catching a guy that makes coffee and fix the copingmachinge is a great victory against terrorism, but catching the headguy Bin Ladin is not that important.
Moleland
09-05-2005, 11:45
Lol
Taransvale
09-05-2005, 11:51
Hahahahah!!!
I find it funny that so so many americans still piss and moan about Bush, if you guys were right, or had the majority, the dumbass wouldn't still be in power. Obviously there is such thing as a silent majority who believe the guys right, get over it and just wait until his terms up before you start whining again.
Carnivorous Lickers
09-05-2005, 17:08
I find it funny that so so many americans still piss and moan about Bush, if you guys were right, or had the majority, the dumbass wouldn't still be in power. Obviously there is such thing as a silent majority who believe the guys right, get over it and just wait until his terms up before you start whining again.
They are really sore losers. I bet half of these whiners didnt even vote-they didnt bother or they're too young. They wont get over it til there is someone else to blame for their own sad post in life.
Sumamba Buwhan
09-05-2005, 17:19
Awwww sosme Bushies can't defend their man from yet another black eye so they resort to childish attacks... how cute and sad at the same time.
Carnivorous Lickers
09-05-2005, 17:38
Awwww sosme Bushies can't defend their man from yet another black eye so they resort to childish attacks... how cute and sad at the same time.
"Black eye"? hardly.
Cute is having a deragatory name for those you dont agree with.
Thats cute.
Sumamba Buwhan
09-05-2005, 20:22
"Black eye"? hardly.
Cute is having a deragatory name for those you dont agree with.
Thats cute.
Well it's not like I would expect you to actually recognize anything bad about the administration that can do no wrong.
And what derogatory term are you speaking of? Bushie? That's the only word I could find that seems like what you might be talking about but I only use it as a quick way to refer to Bush supporters. I don't see anything derogatory about it.
Ah contrare, mon frair. We are getting the big stick.
If you pause ever so briefly, you can feel the neo-cons shoving it up our collective......
I'm not sure who scares me more, the Neo-cons or the religious right. Not all the neo-cons are also religious wing nuts. I guess that is who would scare me the most, neo-con religious right wingers. The one stop shop for insanity!
*Hold me* :eek: