Saturday, December 03, 2005
Damn good security, what?
The breakout of four prisoners from the detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan is more serious than it was presented to be at the time.
The prisoners were considered some of the most dangerous men among the hundreds of terror suspects locked behind the walls of a secretive and secure American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan.Pretty clever huh? But is this merely part of the tangled web world of spookery?
"It is embarrassing and amazing at the same time," one American defense official said. "It was a disaster.".......
.........One of the four escaped suspects was identified as Al Qaeda's highest-ranking operative in Southeast Asia when he was captured in 2002, a fact that emerged only during an unrelated military trial last month. Another, a Saudi, was also described by intelligence officials as an important Qaeda operative in Afghanistan.
In a recent interview, a former Bagram prisoner, Moazzam Begg, said he had heard during his detention there that American intelligence officers had once proposed staging an escape to release a detainee whom they wanted to act a double agent against Al Qaeda. He said he had no knowledge that any such scheme had been carried out, and several American officials strongly dismissed the idea that that had happened with Mr. Faruq and the others.It could be possible. When you read stuff like this you have to wonder.
One of Al Qaeda's top five leaders, a key associate of Ayman al-Zawahri, was tracked down with U.S. help and killed by Pakistani security forces in a rocket attack near the Afghan border, officials said today.
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