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Message #113296 posted by forged registration (Info) March 14, 2008 16:37:57 ET
at least *somebody* is still hunting him...
High-level al-Qaeda member captured, U.S. says
Last Updated: Friday, March 14, 2008 | 3:32 PM ET Comments1Recommend6
CBC News
Authorities have captured a high-level al-Qaeda figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Friday.
The United States Department of Defence said in a release that "high-value detainee" Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani has been transferred to the country's prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The CIA transferred al-Afghani to the Pentagon's custody this week, officials said, but declined to reveal when or where the prisoner had been captured.
In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, CIA Director Michael Hayden said al-Afghani was detained last summer and suggested he was not captured by American authorities, writing that he "was eventually moved into U.S. custody."
Hayden said al-Afghani's combat experience dates to the 1980s and included plots against U.S. and Afghan targets.
The Defence Department said al-Afghani had ties to al-Qaeda throughout the Middle East and was "one of bin Laden's most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists prior to his detention."
Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said the detainee helped prepare bin Laden's mountain hideout at Tora Bora when the U.S. mission in Afghanistan began in 2001 and later assisted the al-Qaeda leader's escape.
There are approximately 280 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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