Law official: Airline bomb suspect flips on cleric, the one that was NOT tortured

[Peacetrain]

Just think where we would be if the Bush and Cheney administration had not turned people over to Blackwater to torture, made trash out of our constitution.... we could have been out of Afghanistan, never been in Iraq, and thousands of people, Americans, Iraqis, Afganis would still be alive.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_airline_terror
Law official: Airline bomb suspect flips on cleric


By MATT APUZZO and EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writers Matt Apuzzo And Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press Writers – 2 hrs 39 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for days, providing information about his contacts in Yemen and the al-Qaida affiliate that operates there.

His cooperation talking about U.S.-born Yemeni radical Anwar al-Awlaki is significant because it could provide fresh clues for authorities trying to capture or kill him in the remote mountains of Yemen. Al-Awlaki has emerged has a prominent al-Qaida recruiter and has been tied to the 9/11 hijackers, Abdulmutallab and the suspect in November's deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

[golfguru]

1. Kill all the terrorist bastards!

I have no mercy for those who murder innocent civilians in the name of religion
or any other cause.

[ohiodemocratic]

2. al-Awlaki has been in an assassination list even before Abdulmutallab allegedly spoke

Let's follow this allegation with a grain of salt. Remember the "Amthrax killer" that was framed and committed "suicide."

[jmowreader]

3. So you're saying you DON'T have to waterboard terrorists to get information?

I wonder where we could have heard that before? Could it have been in, say, FM 34-52?