Al-Libbi "was never more than a regional facilitator" - US is mistaken

[cyberpj]

Al-Libbi "was never more than a regional facilitator"

The Sunday Times - World
May 08, 2005

Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of ‘mistaken identity’

“Al-Libbi is just a ‘middle-level’ leader,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, a French intelligence investigator and leading expert on terrorism finance. “Pakistan and US authorities have completely overestimated his role and importance. He was never more than a regional facilitator between Al-Qaeda and local Pakistani Islamic groups.”

snip...
No European or American intelligence expert contacted last week had heard of al-Libbi until a Pakistani intelligence report last year claimed he had taken over as head of operations after Khalid Shaikh Mohammad’s arrest. A former close associate of Bin Laden now living in London laughed: “What I remember of him is he used to make the coffee and do the photocopying.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html

[kliljedahl]

1. Was posted several times already

I have a friend named Elizabeth, goes by Libby. Is she next?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[cyberpj]

4. I know.... But the nominated thread was getting long and I thought

I could get people to read a little more of the article if I posted it.

Just wanted to keep it front and center here since media isn't talking as usual.

[Frederik]

2. It's just hilarious

They caught the guy who used to make coffee for Bin Laden!

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I thought you made up that line, but it really is in the article...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Al-CIAda]

5. Wasn't this said to be the #3 guy?

"“What I remember of him is he used to make the coffee.”

In the gov'ts defense, I HAVE heard that coffee is a diharettic (#3).