You Can Run, But You Can't Hide....

[Lost Cause]

Every once in a while, you gets some news that gives you that warm all over feeling, today was a good day!

(Reuters) - A missile fired by an unmanned CIA drone aircraft hit a car believed to be carrying suspected al Qaeda members in Yemen Sunday and killed several occupants, a U.S. official said Monday. The official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters the American military was not involved in the attack, which reports from the capital Sanaa said killed six alleged al Qaeda members.

 

[Lost Cause]

oooooohhhhhhh...this is good!

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- At least 20 suspected members of al Qaida, possibly including one of the sons of accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, were deported by Iran to Pakistan two months ago and handed over to the Americans, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.

The two officials -- reached by telephone in Islamabad -- confirmed media reports of the deportation Sunday, and added that the suspects had been given to U.S. authorities. But whether bin Laden's son was among the group remained unclear.

A U.S. official, said he could not discuss "who the Pakistanis had turned over to us and how."

"We are very pleased with the level of cooperation we have with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and we will continue working with them," the official, who works at the U.S. State Department, told United Press International.

Later, he added his guess was that if the Iranians had bin Laden's son, they would not have given him to the Pakistanis.

"They would hand him over to the Saudis because he is a Saudi national," said the official, adding, "It's just a thought."

Iranian policy on returning those who have crossed its borders without proper documentation -- as they say the group of al Qaida suspects did -- is unclear. Officials have made contradictory statements about the destination of the group they deported.

The Saudis have, so far, not commented on the report.

Neither Pakistani official was willing to confirm that bin Laden's son was among the prisoners. And contradictory statements from Iranian officials have done nothing to resolve the question.

"If bin Laden's son was among them, the Americans would have said so but we never heard anything about him from the Americans or the Iranians," said one Pakistani official.

Sunday, a government spokesman in Tehran confirmed a report published in the Financial Times, that bin Laden's son was among the 20 al Qaida suspects deported to what he described as "a neighboring country" two months ago.

"Since they were not holding ID cards, we repatriated them to the country they were coming from," said Abdullah Ramezanzadeh, the Iranian government spokesman, referring to a group of 20 people detained in a border security operation in eastern Iran. He said Iranian authorities later learned that bin Laden's son was among them, but did not say how.

But Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told the FT a much larger group of people -- 250 in all -- suspected of having links with al Qaida had been deported to their home countries.

Monday, Ramzanzadeh added to the confusion by contradicting his previous statements, saying he was unsure if one of bin Laden's sons was in the group.

"Later we heard gossip that bin Laden's son was among them," he told the student news agency ISNA.

"But none of the people who entered the country had identification papers with them... So from our point of view, recognizing their identities was impossible."

Pakistan's Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said Monday he had no knowledge of Iran returning one of bin Laden's sons to the country.

Bin Laden has 23 sons but only two of them are believed to be active in al Qaida. Iranian officials did not identify the one they said they had deported to Pakistan.

One of the bin Laden's sons, Saad bin Laden, who is in his 20s, would be of particular interest to U.S. authorities, who believe he is a potential successor to his father as leader of the al Qaida organization.

 

[sch00lteacher]

I just heard about the missile hit this morning. Sweet deal. I am really happy that we are not denying it.

It would be a bitch to have to worry about silent death from above. Poor ol' terrorist bastards...

 

[brokenbrainwave]

and just one day before an important election. Nothing like great timing.

 

[SINthysist]

They've tried to get this guy prior with a dedicated mission so it was probably opportunity knocking.

Unless, , you'd also like to make the case that someone has been manipulating the market for the illusion of good news also.

 

[brokenbrainwave]

you said it, I didnt...

 

[Coolville]

"BELIEVED" to be some bad guys.
Maybe not.
But who gives a fuck, right?!
There just brown people anyway.
Rock on America.

 

[SINthysist]

We were just as happy targeting Germans and Russians as well as Asians of ALL ilk. We're a happy-go-lucky sort of evil empire...

I haven't seen one official word of protest from any Yemeni official. So that should be ONE huge tip-off that these were some of the less-than-desriables of Yemeni culture.

 

[bored1]

We were just as happy targeting Germans and Russians as well as Asians of ALL ilk. We're a happy-go-lucky sort of evil empire...

I haven't seen one official word of protest from any Yemeni official. So that should be ONE huge tip-off that these were some of the less-than-desriables of Yemeni culture.

I see it as affirimitive action in the workplace

 

[SINthysist]

Double mega 's!