This is from Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Nov. 15) - One of the top two-dozen al-Qaida leaders sought by the United States in its war on terrorism was captured recently and is in American custody, U.S. government sources said on Friday.

The sources declined to name the operative for Osama bin Laden's network who was caught in the past week or so. But it was not top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri, operational leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, nor bin Laden's son Saad.

U.S. authorities have become increasingly concerned this week that al-Qaida was planning fresh attacks.

The FBI said that in selecting its next targets, the network may favor ''spectacular attacks'' that result in mass casualties and severe damage to the U.S. economy.

Contributing to that concern was an audio tape broadcast earlier this week on the al-Jazeera television channel in Qatar believed to be of bin Laden praising recent attacks and making fresh threats.

The United States blamed bin Laden and his al Qaeda network for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America that killed about 3,000 people.

Senior al-Qaida leaders in U.S. custody include Abu Zubaydah and Ramzi Binalshibh, who were being interrogated at an undisclosed location overseas.

''There have been a number of -- numerous senior leaders of al Qaeda that have either been eliminated, incarcerated or detained someplace,'' national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said without elaborating.

President Bush earlier this week, in response to a question about the audio tape, said, ''We'll chase these people down one at a time. It doesn't matter how long it takes, we'll find them and bring them to justice.''

Reut12:51 11-15-02

Copyright 2002 Reuters Limited.

<font color="#ff6666">Another one bites the dust to quote Queen!

Edit: Crumudgeon! (In the name of Single Character Juxtaposition!!!)</font>

<font color=skyblue>Bring him down South, and I'll make him some sausage biscuits and bacon for breakfast!</font>

Thanks for offering up the traditional breakfast of Islamic fundamentalist fanatics everywhere.
What would you give him after he eats?

all i gotta say is yay!

I'll admit the information we may gather from this guy is priceless. Nevertheless, it's sad we caught him alive, isn't it? :(

You're looking sharp these days TL. Has anybody ever said you look a little like Greg Brady?

I don't think guys like this will speak very much. They are not allowed to negotiate with the big Satan you know. :D

Throw him into the north pole, I say! :D

I don't think guys like this will speak very much. They are not allowed to negotiate with the big Satan you know. :D </font>[/QUOTE]With the right "interrogation" methods, anyone will talk. Too bad that pussified Geneva Convention prevents it though, no?

Ah yes... the Geneva convention.... who EVER played by that book ?

Thanks for offering up the traditional breakfast of Islamic fundamentalist fanatics everywhere.

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I made a crude joke and will apologize to everyone that had to read it.
I went too far with my hatred of terrorism, and have deleted this offensive suggestion, replacing it with these words.
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[ 11-15-2002, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

<font color = lightgreen>I can see that capturing the rest of the leaders will take a couple more years. *sigh* However, slow progress is better than no progress, I always say. [img]graemlins/awesomework.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] </font>

Take one leader out, two new ones will step up. After all, they're all marters. :D

Take one leader out, two new ones will step up. After all, they're all marters. :D </font>[/QUOTE]<font color="#ff6666">Yeah, but as I said earlier, attrition hurts them in the brain department, as the leaders who are takin over are less and less capable, and less and less wealthy, they become easier and easier to target or to at least stop their less well thought out plans. You wouldn't believe how many really dumb criminal and terror types there are, who never accomplish anything due to their own stupidity.

Well you might, there have been several threads about stupid criminals on here </font>

I know MagiK, i know. The best example are those Islamic extremists in Indonesia. They give television interviews and tell the world what their intentions are. Now everyone knows their faces, and it's no secret where they live either. :D

Great one more are captured!!

One of the best explications of theis was by a man who is certainly not one of my personal heroes, William Tecumseh Sherman. In a letter to, I think, Grant, he tells how "we must kill two hundred thousand," meaning the dissident Southerners, so that the chastened rump would be amenable to coming back into the union. Harsh, but undoubtedly effective, judging from a letter from a Southern general later, that complained of "the loss of the best and brightest" during the war.

*nods* [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thewave.gif[/img]
Hey, Bush got a sentance right!
Sorry, some news eclipses others :D

*Wishes that he'd paddled Katia more often when she was little.* ;)

Paddled? :eek: sounds bad -o-

*Wishes that he'd paddled Katia more often when she was little.* ;) </font>[/QUOTE]It's not too late for that Attalus. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

*Wishes that he'd paddled Katia more often when she was little.* ;) </font>[/QUOTE]It's not too late for that Attalus. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]*smacks Johnny with a freshly caught trout* [img]graemlins/troutslap.gif[/img] stay quiet, you at the back!