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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (16474)1/4/2006 3:39:04 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
FASCINATING STORY OF AL-QAEDA TERRORIST CAPTURE

TKS
jim geraghty reporting

Periodically last year I grumbled that the capture of Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa was barely noticed back in the States. Well, here's a great, detailed, fascinating story on this from the AP.

A couple of highlights:

* al-Saqa, a Syrian, was one of several convicted in absentia in a plot to attack Americans and Israelis in Jordan with poison gas during millennium celebrations. Another plotter? Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

* He helped plot the 2003 Istanbul bombings, which killed 58 and injured hundreds.

* He hid his tracks so well that even fellow militants thought he was dead. He was believed to be dead until last August, when an accidental explosion forced him to flee his safehouse in the Turkish resort of Antalya. Police responding to the blast discovered more than 1,320 pounds of bomb-making materials, falsified Syrian and Turkish IDs and two Tunisian passports, all with al-Saqa's picture.

* At the time of his capture, he was planning an attack on Israeli tourist ships. If I recall correctly, just before he was captured, several Israeli tourist ships were told to change course and avoid the Turkish coast.

* The line on al-Saqa is that he's one of only a few people who understands the current infrastructure of al-Qaeda. He's the go-between; leaders and various cells are probably now cut off from one another.

Let's hope investigators are still getting information out of him.

tks.nationalreview.com

washingtonpost.com
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