Oh I'm so CONFUSED!! But do I really, really care at this point?
Yesterday I posted, the TimesUK Article which read:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html">Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of ‘mistaken identity’
Updating myself this morning over at dKos, someone mentioned the article below, and I thought everyone would like to read it and draw their own conclusions.
So before we leap to our keyboards and start writing any LTE's, here's a portion of today's article dated 5/08 from
Time Online:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1058999,00.htmlEven more remarkable than how the burqa bust came about was the identity of the operative that Pakistani officials announced they had netted: Abu Faraj al-Libbi, 40, a Libyan believed to be al-Qaeda's third-highest-ranking official--and one of the few individuals who counterterrorism experts believe may have knowledge of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
But the arrest had barely been hailed by President Bush as a "critical victory in the war on terror" when the picture grew murky. According to an Islamabad intelligence source, the burqa-clad fugitive arrested by the Pakistani commandos last week was not al-Libbi but a local Pakistani militant.
Al-Libbi, the source says, had been seized a few weeks earlier, but his arrest was hushed up so agents could pursue unsuspecting collaborators. U.S. counterterrorism sources insist on the official version. "We not only believe, we know it happened this week," a U.S. official told TIME.
I'm really divided on this one. If they do have him, great! However, I so much wanted * to be made a fool. I suppose if I can take any solice from this, is that the majority of the sheeple won't know or care.