Re: I think the Pilgrims would be proud of Israel. That was their goal, fortunately it didn't pan out.
Well... I think they'd be even prouder of the U.S.A. After all, did they ever contemplate achieving a worldwide superpower --even in their wildest dreams?
Anyway, what the article below reports is really beyond me.... It's now 3 months after the U.S. sent its crack stormtroopers off to Afghanistan to "smoke out" bin Laden and his henchmen. Granted, bin Laden was on the alert ever since Sept 11th, 2001 and, expectedly, managed to escape his pursuers... But how come a second fiddle like that Mohammed Sliti succeeded in wriggling out of Afghanistan, into Iran, only to get handed over to Holland and, eventually, Belgium?? Heck, if small fry like Sliti can slip through the net then it's no wonder big-fish bin Laden's still on the loose... Sliti should have been snatched on his way to the Iranian border and airmailed to Guantanamo pronto! But then, perhaps the FBI doesn't want to hear what Sliti has to say about his alleged (non-)involvement in the killing of Massoud? Hence they carelessly let the hot potato roll all its way down to the Belgian oubliette...
Dutch detain Massoud suspect
AMSTERDAM
Thursday, February 28, 2002
The Dutch police have detained a suspect in the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the anti-Taliban leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance who died in a suicide bombing last September, news reports said Wednesday.
Justice officials said an arrest was made on an international warrant issued by Belgium, which is seeking the suspect's extradition.
The officials would not confirm the suspect's identity, however.
Reports said the suspect was Mohammed Sliti, a Tunisian-born Belgian citizen, who was wanted by Belgium in connection with the plot that killed Massoud in his northern Afghan headquarters.
Sliti was taken into custody at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam on Tuesday as he arrived on a flight from Tehran. A spokesman for the public prosecutor in the western town of Haarlem said the suspect would be extradited to Belgium in "a few days."
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