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It seems clear that not everyone agrees: http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/09/once_again_we_prove_roger_ailes_divorced_from_reality_about_fox_news_fairness_and_balance.php even though the US establishment and their chums (e.g. the Pakistani police force) are sticking to the story that he is important. Mr. Jones 07:00, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Any author of this stub care to defend the allegation that al-Libbi is actually a big shot Qaeda player? I have no reference earlier that late December, 2004, although given the different transliterations of Arabic names into English, it could be that I have not properly adjusted search strings. Still it seems rather odd, and extremely Orwellian that a man uncited in news accounts until 5 1/2 months ago is El Qaeda Numero tres, as is being reported in almost all major media, although I did notice that claim was left from the stub.
Since I'm being critical, I'll offer something in return:
2004.12.20, AFP, Pak arrests Al-Qaeda aide, thwart major attack
It may be a trojan horse though, since it reports a different sum for al-Libby's US reward:
The "Mastermind" tag often thrown as and adjective of al-Libby appears to be a great deal of spin also, since his cited great accomplishments are two failed assasination attempts upon Pervez Musharraf, one utterly lame, and the other, a radio controlled bomb on a bridge that went after Musharraf's motorcade, but was detonated after his car had passed, that was widely viewed in Pakistan as evidence that the Dictator receives high-end CIA protection, and they have devices that can defeat radio contolled IED's.
If I find anything else pertinent, and publicly linkable, I'll post it here, eventhough I have great doubts that anything whatsoever will be done expressing what i consider to be valid doubts as to the veracity of the Bush Admin over the number three claim.
Chris Johnston, Villagers tell different tale of al-Libbi's capture, Times Online, and Associated Press, May 05, 2005
Does anybody know what caused the reddish marks that can be seen on the sides of al-Libbi's face in this photo? Are these burns? Scrapes? Birthmarks? Chrissnell 07:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I removed some off-topic ranting from the discussion page here... if you want to write BUSH = HITLER or NO BLOOD FOR OIL rants, do it on your blog or DemocraticUnderground or somewhere irrelevent like that, not in discussion pages of useful articles.
I added that he is now known to be in Gitmo, and took out the Human Rights Watch thing. I abbreviated the bit about the confusion with Anas al-Liby, which IMO is off topic and unnecessary now that the smoke has cleared. (ISI and CIA knew perfectly well which of the Libi's they were taking down.) I hope the new style of references is okay; I converted the article to it just because it's the type I know :)
Interesting that he had coded notes on his person, and he was on a motorcycle -- sounds like he might have been on his way to see bin Ladin!
They are not the same person so removing the mergeto template.(Hypnosadist) 21:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I am not trying to pick at straws here, but is terror organization the correct word? I think that terrorist organization or radical Islamic terrorist organizationprobably works better. I dunno.Mrathel (talk) 14:26, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
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