GuardianUK: Al-Qaida Detainee May Know About Plans To Attack UK

[Hissyspit]

Or as I like to say in my lectures: "Or NOT."
What is this? I thought the Guardian was better than this. No mention that lots of people don't think he is No. 3? He MAY know? He may know the outcome of next week's Preakness, too! He may know my Aunt Shelba!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1483812,00.html

Al-Qaida detainee may know about plans to attack UK

Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday May 14, 2005
The Guardian

A top al-Qaida suspect arrested in Pakistan could have vital information about possible terrorist attacks on Britain, intelligence sources believe.

British security and intelligence officials are seeking information from Abu Faraj al-Libbi, believed to be number three in the al-Qaida leadership, to find out what he knows about any operations planned against Britain or British interests abroad.

Mr Libbi had no direct contact with al-Qaida sympathisers in the UK, officials say. But, as the controller of a number of overseas networks, he would be in a position to know what attacks, if any, were being prepared against Britain and other western targets.

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MI5 and MI6 officials have yet to interrogate Mr Libbi, preferring to leave initial questioning to the Pakistani authorities. But British anti-terrorist sources are anxious to find out as soon as possible what he knows about al-Qaida's networks. The US is also keen to question him.

The New York Times reported yesterday that Mr Libbi, a Libyan, was still in Pakistani custody and would not be handed over to the US quickly.

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[Frederik]

1. He was Bin Laden's coffee maker

He's not "Al-Qaeda's number three man". Jeesus. This is pure bullshit.

[Hissyspit]

2. Read the whole article and it's even worse. (There's not much more to it.)

It's all speculation. Really bad journalism.

[Frederik]

3. Yeah, I read it.

Extremely dissapointed that the Guardian printed this nonsense. They should know better.

[Hissyspit]

8. That's what threw me. I went there to find something valid

and found this.

[rooboy]

4. Great. Ask him if he knows where I left the remote control. n/t

[jukes]

5. my car keys

i have to use my spare set till he's interrogated....

[henslee]

6. sounds like an interrogatoin job for jack bauer/ 24.

[CJCRANE]

7. "Mr Libbi, a Libyan" -

where do they get these names from? I'm pretty sure "al-Libbi" means "the Libyan", as in a nickname. So that sentence means "Mr Libyan, a Libyan".