Breaking: Americans nab high-value Osama lieutenant
posted at 2:36 pm on March 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The US captured an al-Qaeda terrorist who played an instrumental role in helping Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan after 9/11. Mohammed Rahim now sits in a Guantanamo Bay cell after his capture, arriving there this week, although the CIA won’t say when or where they caught him:
The Pentagon says authorities have captured a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001.
Officials declined to say when or where Mohammad Rahim was captured — announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to the Pentagon earlier this week and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
This must be a different Mohammed Rahim than the one already at Gitmo for several years. That Rahim has been charged with being the chief of logistics for the Taliban as well as a member of its intelligence service. He has denied all charges, but the US believed it had sufficient evidence to continue his detention after a tribunal in December 2004.
Pakistan’s The Nation reported the capture of a Mohammed Rahim two months ago:
Aminul Haq, a leading Al-Qaeda fugitive from Afghanistan and a close associate of late Afghan Jihadi leader Maulvi Younas Khalis, was apprehended from Lahore couple of days back, disclosed some credible Afghan sources.
Through these sources, TheNation came to know about the arrest of Dr Aminul Haq by the intelligence and law-enforcing agencies from an undisclosed area in Lahore. At present, Dr Aminul Haq is under interrogation somewhere in the country, the sources added.
Dr Amin is the second leading Al-Qaeda operative from Afghanistan apprehended in Lahore. Earlier, Mohammad Rahim, an alleged Al-Qaeda fugitive, who had worked as Osama bin Laden’s driver for couple of years in Afghanistan was also arrested from Lahore.
Perhaps the capture of Haq might be more significant. Rahim sounds more like the kind of connection the US needs to track Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri rather than stop another attack. Still, the significance of the two-month delay in announcing his capture indicates that the CIA thought Rahim could reveal some interesting information.
Update (AP): Actually, it looks from this article in the Nation like they’ve had him since August. That six-month delay to turn him over to the Pentagon is about the same time it took for Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi to end up at Gitmo after he was captured.
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Isnt this within the time frame of those last two Pakistani Misslie strikes ?
Could he have given us some safe house locations ?
William Amos on March 14, 2008 at 2:37 PM
We must not water board this man. If he knows where OBL is, we must ask him nicely to tell us. He has the same rights as any American citizen, don’t you know?
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letget on March 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Was he saying God D**m America?
Oh, sorry. Allah D**m America.
Waterboard his ass.
Darksean on March 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Hahahahaha
kcluva on March 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Hangin’s too good fer this’n.
Akzed on March 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Waterboard……..Rinse…………..repeat.
TroubledMonkey on March 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Sounds like the CIA has found the right zip code.
Good hunting, boys!
Seven Percent Solution on March 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Give this man a teaching job at Harvard!
petefrt on March 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Well then, waiting from the outrage from McCain’s camp that he wasn’t simply given milk and cookies and good talking to before being sent on his way.
highhopes on March 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM
one step closer to OBL….one day at a time….I hope George catches him before his term is over. That would be a reason to celebrate and i know it has to be killing him that he hasnt caught him yet….
SoCalInfidel on March 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM
We should still subject him to our other types of “torture” - bright lights, unscented soap, underinflated soccer balls and enough food to make him gain 18 pounds. Clog his arteries with some good old American cholesterol.
Bigfoot on March 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM
How about Miller Lite and 10 straight hours of reading the Daily Kos?
NoDonkey on March 14, 2008 at 2:49 PM
He’s an ugly cuss.
yo on March 14, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Dude, just waterboard me, thanks.
yo on March 14, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Heard it here first. IF Obama oops! Did I just say that? I mean Bin Laden is still alive, he will be delivered in October.
LtE126 on March 14, 2008 at 2:52 PM
What’s a bath without bubbles? Hey Bubbles, come on in!
mymanpotsandpans on March 14, 2008 at 2:52 PM
I can’t believe the US government has arrested Barak Obama’s lieutenant!
Oh wait, that’s OSAMA’S lieutenant.
Hard to tell the difference between the two camps sometime.
Maybe we could ask Obama’s guys to wear red turbans.
NoDonkey on March 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM
My sentiments, exactly. Nicely said. I can add nothing.
OhEssYouCowboys on March 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Breaking News from Washington: The Organizers of Winter Soldier II Have Extended an Invitation to Mr. Rahim.
Stay tuned as this story continues to develop. Now back to troop smearing already in progress.
amerpundit on March 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Gee, I hope he isn’t “shot while escaping” in a couple of weeks, after they’ve had opportunity to extract info from him.
RWLA on March 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Are the Dems crying yet?
j0 on March 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Cue up “The Barney Song” and crank it up to 11!
Now that’s torture!
cool breeze on March 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM
I hope they waterboarded him with hot water.
Virus-X on March 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM
What’s wrong with Miller Lite? Tastes great. Less filling.
txsurveyor on March 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Force him to listen to “Kristen”’s new hit single for 24 hours straight.
We’ll have Osama by Monday.
WisCon on March 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM
“Tastes great.”
True - MB uses only the best feline urine available.
Just doesn’t taste like “beer”, but why hold that against it?
NoDonkey on March 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM
This is pure torture ….. for the Donks.
fogw on March 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Maybe he can get a job as an associate pastor at Obama’s church.
sdd on March 14, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Did he have an “Elect” Obama sign outside of his cave?
Hening on March 14, 2008 at 3:17 PM
mmmm…the sweet, sweet taste of Miller Lite.
tlynch001 on March 14, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Obama’s running mate?
faraway on March 14, 2008 at 3:21 PM
For those who may have missed it, here are the tunes that Mohammed Rahim has been listening to for the past six months, aka “The Torture Playlist“.
I think “Raspberry Beret” definitely violates the Geneva Convention.
cool breeze on March 14, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Maybe This
Wade on March 14, 2008 at 3:23 PM
It’s nearly Miller time for this redneck! Miller Lite, that is.
txsurveyor on March 14, 2008 at 3:23 PM
It must be getting awfully lonely back at Al Qaeda HQ in the cave in Waziristan: “Hey, Mohammed went out for a pack a smokes and he never came back. Just like the others!”
Long pause.
“Hey, is that Azzam the American’s ear up in that tree?”
Tantor on March 14, 2008 at 3:24 PM
or Maybe This
Wade on March 14, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Those sausage smokers would get their a$$es kicked in Texas. Especially if they tried to get in my cooler full of ice cold Miller Lite.
txsurveyor on March 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM
I would have trouble sleeping at night if I thought this gentleman had been waterboarded. However, I could sleep peacefully if I knew that he had been sent off to an island paradise with 72 New York virgins. Thinking he was dead and gone to heaven, he would sing like a dicky-bird. The 72 paid for with freshly printed greenbacks dropped by the Fed from a helicopter, of course. Alas, I must defer to a truly experienced politician dare to hope so audaciously. My reverie now shattered, I return to my humble work…
shaken on March 14, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Oh gosh…if I boycotted every product that supports leather wearing masochists…
tlynch001 on March 14, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Is it just me or does he look like Adam Baldwin?
Skywise on March 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Bright lights! Howard Stern’s Body Parts! Ladies with their periods! Panties! Give him the full treatment!
Blake on March 14, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Maybe a bit.
Animal Mother.
JammieWearingFool on March 14, 2008 at 3:53 PM
Fixed Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_al_qaida&printer=1
Indy Conservative on March 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM
No reaction/confirmation from Al-Qaeda yet, just the news:
خبر عاجل / البنتاجون: القبض على مسؤول كبير في القاعدة
قال وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية إن السلطات اعتقلت مسؤلا كبيرا في تنظيم القاعدة كان قد ساعد أسامة بن لادن على الهرب من جبال تورا بورا في أفغانستان عام 2001.
ولم يكشف المسؤولون مكان أو زمان اعتقال الرجل الذي قالت إن اسمه هو محمد عبد الرحيم لكنها اكتفت بالقول إنه جرى تسليمه من طرف المخابرات المركزية الأمريكية إلى البنتاجون في أوائل الاسبوع الجاري وإنه موجود حاليا في معتقل جوانتنامو في كوبا.
وقال بريان ويتمان الناطق باسم وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية إن عبد الرحيم كان مقربا من بن لادن وله صلات بتنظيم القاعدة في أنحاء الشرق الأوسط.
وقال ويتمان إن عبد الرحيم أعد مكانا لاختباء في جبال تورا بورا استخدمه بن لادن بعد غزو القوات الأمريكية أفغانستان عام 2001.
وأضاف أن عبد الرحيم ساعد بن لادن على الهرب من المنطقة خلال العملية الأمريكية التي كانت تستهدف القبض على بن لادن.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news…00/7297499.stm
المصدر
ونسأل الله تعالى باسمائه وصفاته العلى ان يكون الخبر كاذباً
Indy Conservative on March 14, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Ed, I’ve updated my post (this is Thanos) around the same time he was captured (8/7/07) :
Blogs were wondering why the AQ camps in Pakistan emptied,
Musharraf ditched the two-nation Peace Jirga due to “compelling reasons” and we hit Tora Bora again, getting other HVT’s.
We were also chasing Abdur Rahim at the end of August, not sure if he’s related to Muhamad.
Tark on March 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM
One more thing, I’ve seen video of this guy recently, maybe at Jawas? Going digging
Tark on March 14, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Highhopes–
McCain may be against torture–but he isn’t against putting a bullet through his head.
Hope P. Muntz on March 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Pastor Wright?
/sorry
funky chicken on March 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM
I’m sure we will see that skank attorney, Lynn Stewart volunteer as his attorney. Won’t it be ironic when she starts delivering secret messages from him, where she used to deliver them TO him.
Shawn92101 on March 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Ed: The photo you have here appears to be Al Libi, not Mohamad Rahim. It’s mislabed at one site on google images. I see plenty more sites with that photo labeled “al Libi” than Rahim.
Tark on March 14, 2008 at 5:14 PM
I hope McCain doesn’t make an a$s out of himself (again)over this.
Zorro on March 14, 2008 at 5:53 PM
So, if we get Osama bin Laden today, it’ll be revealed in September near the Republican convention time frame.
/democrat conspiracy
SouthernGent on March 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM
It warms my heart knowing that Predators
are on the prowl,this guy is probably really
lucky that a Predator didn’t find him first!
canopfor on March 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Let me question him for 30 minutes. I promise I won’t waterboard him …… I will get the intel …..
gstrickler on March 14, 2008 at 7:35 PM
While they water board him they should be warming up Ole Sparky. His head will already be wet. I think doing it this way would be very environmentally sensitive.
Mormon Doc on March 14, 2008 at 8:14 PM
SLOWLY PULL HIS FINGERNAILS OUT ONE-BY-ONE WITH A PAIR OF RUSTY LINEMANS PLIERS TILL YOU GET ALL THE INFO YOU CAN…
THEN FEED HIM INTO A WOOD CHIPPER….
awesum on March 14, 2008 at 9:07 PM
Some like hanging by thumbs.
burt on March 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM
“Damn it….honey have you seen our waterboard?”
Little Boomer on March 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM
With those teeth, who needs a waterboard! Get me a really bad dentist, his tools, a chair with leather straps, and no novacaine. Oh, and throw in a hot dental assistant wearing a little strapless number and we’ll have OBL’s location in under fifteen minutes. The ACLU won’t be able to say a thing….socialized healthcare you know!
Forget the Miller Lite….vodka with a splash of tonic water and a hint of lime over ice hits the spot every time.
Bubba Redneck on March 14, 2008 at 11:18 PM
“Breaking: Americans nab high-value Osama lieutenant”
This is great news. Low value lieutenants are so… cheap. You know what I’m saying. Still, let’s nab less, and expunge more. Again, you know what I’m saying :).
Kevin M on March 15, 2008 at 1:40 AM
“Rahim now sits in a Guantanamo Bay cell”
We should put him in a cage with Brian Stanz. He’ll talk. That is, IF he’s still able to when Stanz is done with.
Tony737 on March 15, 2008 at 9:04 AM
That would fall under the description of cruel and unusual punishment, wouldn’t it? :)
OldEnglish on March 15, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Word has it Billy Jeff was sent on the mission and simply told he won a trip to a city a French city known for loose morals. Billy was given a picture of this guy and told this would be his city guide to the city’s underbelly, he just needed to find him.
Unconfirmed sources report Billy tracked Mohammad Rahim down after only 3 hours in country.
Gosh, I hope Rahim is not made uncomfortable at Gitmo….he might start talking….
moxie_neanderthal on March 15, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Hey I waterboard! Was in Oahu and they have the best waterboarding on the north side. In fact you can rent a waterboard there if you dont want to bring one.
eh…kiddin aside, I eem to agree. Who knows when we actually caught this guy. Could have been weeks ago. Never let the other team know when you found one of their playbooks or where.
johnnyU on March 15, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Here’s an offer to all the crazy lefties who are unwilling to waterboard this pathetic excuse for a man, Rahim abd-al-sheitan, if it is necessary to gain valuable intelligence.
I’m willing get waterboarded at the same time, and for as long as he gets it. I know it would be one of worst experiences in my life - I nearly drowned once, and it was terrifying. However, I am willing to do this because I trust our interrogators to do the right thing in the right way. Also, my inconvenience would be offset the knowledge that I helped America defeat al Qaeda.
How do you argue with that?
OmegaPaladin on March 15, 2008 at 11:10 PM