Everyone see this???

[whometense]

You won't find it in the news.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1453675

The Sunday Times - World

May 08, 2005

Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of ‘mistaken identity’
Christina Lamb and Mohammad Shehzad Islamabad
THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation.

Al-Libbi’s arrest in Pakistan, announced last Wednesday, was described in the United States as “a major breakthrough” in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

Bush called him a “top general” and “a major facilitator and chief planner for the Al- Qaeda network”. Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, said he was “a very important figure”. Yet the backslapping in Washington and Islamabad has astonished European terrorism experts, who point out that the Libyan was neither on the FBI’s most wanted list, nor on that of the State Department “rewards for justice” programme.

[Dr Ron]

1. Mistaken identy--just like Iraq

From LUTD:

A Case of Mistaken Identity, Again
8 May 2005


European intelligence experts now report that George Bush's claims of capturing the number three al Qaeda leader was a case of "mistaken identity." (Also discussed here).This is hardly the first time for George Bush. After all, when Bush claimed to be going after a country which had weapons of mass destruction and which was assisting terrorists, this must have been Iran or North Korea. It certainly didn't apply to Iraq.

Sometimes the invasion of Iraq reminds me of the old joke of a group of monks studying ancient texts. Suddenly one of them realizes they have been making a grave mistake for centuries as he discovered that one word had been copied incorrectly. The correct word was celebrate.

Sometimes I wonder if Bush just confused intelligence reports on Iran and Iraq. After all, it is only a one letter difference.