Somebody's lying about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

[mdlbear]

If you capture a terrorist kingpin, you don't tell the world about it, you keep it a secret until you can pump him for information and track down all his contacts before they realize he's been compromised.

So somebody's lying. Either some idiot leaked the information, or he's actually been in custody for some time, and everyone of significance has already been tracked down. Or he's really dead and they're trying to use the announcement to make someone think he's about to give away information.

It's suggestive that khaosworks refers this morning to another article, dated October 30^th that claims he was killed in a raid on his house September 11^th. That would fit either of the last two hypotheses.

Comments

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

Unless you're Bush and you really need some Good News (TM) to keep the American people distracted from onrushing war. However, the scenarios you cite are also likely.

Churchill said, "Truth is so precious in war that she must always be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies."

The lie worth telling here is that the US actually has some intel on al-Queda and other terror groups. If the bad guys only knew how little we actually had on them . . .

Bush is an idiot. But I repeat myself.

[johno.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase khaosworks: "Let loose the dogs of conspiracy theories."

There are holes in both sets of reports.

The biggest is in the "he died last Sept" story. Where the Rangers supposedly shot Khalid in cold blood in front of witnesses.

1) Witnesses?

2) First and foremost, we want these guys for the information they have in their heads. Justice/Revenge comes later. I would think that the Rangers had it drilled into their heads "Don't kill Khalid!!!!"