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To: Wayners who wrote (45656)	5/10/2005 11:36:30 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

al-Libbi Not Al Qaida Bigshot Afterall (Bushies lied?) Update: According to a report in the Sunday London Times, al-Libbi may not even be the man the Bush administration has said he is (hat tip to War Room reader, S.F.). European intelligence officials quoted by the Times said that al-Libbi was not al-Qaida's third in command, as claimed by U.S. and Pakistani officials last week, but a middle-ranked operative derided by one source as "among the flotsam and jetsam" of the organization. (Some have speculated that U.S. officials initially confused al-Libbi with another Libyan-born terrorist, Anas al-Liby, wanted by the FBI in connection with the 1998 East African embassy bombings.) An unnamed senior FBI official, adds the Times, has admitted that al-Libbi's "influence and position have been overstated," while another U.S. official explained al-Libbi's absence from FBI and State Department terrorist watch lists by saying, "We did not want him to know he was wanted." The Times report reads a bit funky in its own right: A "former close associate of Osama bin Laden's now living in London," the paper says, "laughed" about al-Libbi's glorified capture: "What I remember of him is he used to make the coffee and do the photocopying." (Huh?) Nevertheless, there seems to be more than enough reason to question the veracity of the Bush administration's pronouncing the al-Libbi capture a "critical victory in the war on terror."