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Whaaaaat?!?!?

Can this be right? If so, there's something very fishy going on here.

A man once considered a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him...

Omar al-Farouq was one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants in Southeast Asia until Indonesian authorities captured him in the summer of 2002 and turned him over to the United States.

A Pentagon official in Washington confirmed Tuesday evening that al-Farouq escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 10...

An Army lawyer for Sgt. Alan J. Driver, a reservist accused of abusing Bagram detainees, asked Tuesday where al-Farouq was and what the Army had done to find him in time for Driver's court proceedings.

Capt. John B. Parker, a prosecutor, said al-Farouq and three others escaped from the Bagram detention center and have not been found. "If we find him ... we will make him available," Parker said.

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Escaped.....escaped my foot. There's a whole lot of desert out there

Posted by: McAristotle at November 3, 2005 11:15 PM

almost forgot here's a much better version of the story enjoy.

http://www.spacewar.com/2005/051102213051.jzqg43rf.html

Posted by: Judda at November 3, 2005 02:28 PM

OLD news I'm afraid guys I knew about this in Aug, and he isn't dead.

Now what you should be asking is...
1. who let him go? Answer it goes all the way to the very very top, hmm I know lets blame Libby again.

2. what did HE have on the US gov or it's Leaders that would force them to let him go? Answer I wonder could it be the missing 911 documentation on the Afgan oil pipeslines, because that's why the US is in Iraq, OIL. Wow that's right the US only invaded Afganistan because they wanted more money and oil then the US wanted to share.

3. now he's free lets see how hard they try to find him. About as hard as they are looking for Ossy Bin Laden ie not very hard.

Try to get your collective heads out of the sand once in a while and have a good look around you and you never know just what you will find.

Judda x

Posted by: Judda at November 3, 2005 07:10 AM

Yeah, he escapes just before he is supposed to testify against a service member for alleged abuse...

He "escaped" all right... more like "slipped the surly bonds of earth"

Posted by: Yasonyacky at November 2, 2005 10:08 PM

So it DID happen, its just gotten back into the news cycle because it affects a court-marshal. So the DOD line is "Yeah, this is a few months old news".

But JEEEBUS, it happened in the first place? And nobody noticed? I would have expected something like this to make a major shitstorm on the NY Times. "Al Quaeda Leutenant escapes from US Airbase".

Posted by: Nicholas Weaver at November 2, 2005 06:10 PM

Look here for more info:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2005/20051102_3223.html

Posted by: Kevin at November 2, 2005 03:42 PM

Whaaaaat?!?!?

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