Nicole Belle at the CrooksAndLiarsBlog notes the capture of a high-ranking al Queda leader and links to this Reuters article
A suspected al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the past year, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reported on Sunday.
Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told El Pais.
A spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Spain declined to comment on the report.
Setmarian’s 2005 capture was reported in May of this year after the United States put a $5 million bounty on the head of the alleged founder of al Qaeda’s Spanish network.
A photograph of the red-haired Setmarian has been removed from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Intelligence’s most-wanted Web page.
She then follows up with a question:
So they have an Al Qaeda leader in custody for the last year and haven’t trotted him out as proof that they are winning the “War on Terror” or prosecuted him for crimes in which he’s allegedly been involved during this oh-so-important election season? Hmmmm…..It seems to me that would be a pretty big deal to help the Republicans look tough on national security. Can you guess why they haven’t?
From what I can glean in the feverswamps/comment section, the guesses are as follows in order of popularity:
1. He has been tortured and/or disfigured beyond what American citizens would find acceptable and BusHitlerMcCheneyBurton can’t let the populace see him,
2. He was killed during interrogation
3. He was killed during aprehension
4. We never actually apprehended him
5. He never really existed because September 11th was an inside job
Or, if you’re not insane, you might think that catching terrorists isn’t a political thing. But how many people that read places like CrooksAndLiars seriously aren’t insane?