-Caveat Lector- Khaled Shaikh Mohammed
ROBERT FISK, INDEPENDENT - There was the slow revelation that the man whose arrest was described by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer as "a wonderful blow to inflict on Al Qaeda," had been handed over to Pakistani authorities (if indeed he had been handed over) by the ISI, the Pakistani Interservices Intelligence for whom Mohammed used to work. Like the man accused of arranging the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Mohammed was an ISI asset; indeed, anyone who is "handed over" by the ISI these days is almost certainly a former (or present) employee of the Pakistani agency whose control of Taliban operatives amazed even the Pakistani government during the years before 2001. Pearl, it should be remembered, arranged his fatal assignation in Karachi on a mobile phone from an ISI office in the city. http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=fb81f5f06 5 77ac34&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=10357785 1 9658&call_pageid=968332188854 AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING - The sister of a Pakistani [Ahmed Quddus] arrested in a swoop that authorities say also netted the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks has said he [Ahmed Quddus] was the only man present at the time of the raid and had no ties to any extremist group. Pakistani authorities said on Saturday local time they had arrested three Al Qaeda suspects in an early morning raid on a house in the city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad. Those held included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and 41-year-old Pakistani Ahmed Quddus, they said. . . However, members of Quddus's family said he was the only person arrested in a raid by 20 to 25 security men armed with Kalashnikov rifles on their house in Westridge, a middle-class area of Rawalpindi at 22:30 GMT Friday. "My brother was the only man in the house when the raid took place," his sister Qudsia Khanum said. "He was taken away while his wife and kids were herded into a room and locked in. They didn't even know when they took him... or where. My brother has never been involved in any bad things. Actually, he's a bit slow, he's not very clever, so I can't even begin to imagine that he could be involved with any terrorist organization. "He does not have any links with any terrorist organization. "They're saying such strange things about him in the press. He's been living in the neighborhood for 15 years and everyone knows him to be a placid person." . . . Some analysts questioned whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually been arrested on Saturday and speculated he may have been held for some time. "I think he was arrested [or 'killed' according to the Asia Times reporting on a ISI/FBI operation] several months ago in the shootout in Karachi," one expert on Pakistan who declined to be identified said, referring to a gun battle in September in the southern port city that netted another Al Qaeda figure, Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, known as Binalshibh. Mohammed was reported to have narrowly evaded capture in that battle, when Karachi police identified him as a man hit by a police sniper. But a suspected militant later denied this. Another terror expert said several weeks ago he believed Mohammed had been arrested and that he expected the news would be only be made public when it was in the interests of the United States and Pakistan. The first analyst said the arrest could make Islamic militants even more wary of the Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence that they had considered an ally when the country was backing the Taliban in Afghanistan before September 11. "Those who think they have ISI protection will stop feeling that comfort level," he said. Pakistani officials said on Sunday local time that Mohammed had been handed over to US custody soon after his arrest. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s796172.htm Rory McCarthy, guardian, uk - Yesterday the Khan family who live at the two-story gray house at 18a Nisar Road, where officials say they found Mohammed, gave a very different account of the raid. Dr Abdul Quddus Khan, 78, a retired microbiologist who runs a respected cardiology institute lives at the house with his wife Mahlaqa, their son Ahmed, 42, his wife and their two young children. Dr Khan and his wife were at a wedding in Lahore on Friday. At 3 am on Saturday a squad of around 20 armed police and intelligence officers kicked open the door and burst into the house. They dragged away Ahmed and held his wife and children at gunpoint for an hour as they ransacked the house, according to Ahmed's sister Qudsia. "They left clothes and books strewn on the floor and took a bundle of dollar bills which were locked in a cupboard," she said. "The bedrooms were turned upside down, one door upstairs was broken and they took the new computer," she said. At no point, the family say, was Mohammed or any other man in the house. The agents did not even ask about them. "The only people in the house were my brother, his wife and their kids," Qudsia said. "I have absolutely no idea why the police came here." Officials at Pakistan's interior ministry insist they found Mohammed and one other Arab al-Qaida suspect in the house and arrested them at the same time as Ahmed was detained. Yet the family and their supporters challenge the official account and say Mohammed must have been arrested in another raid at another time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,906384,00.html <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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