Omar al-Faruq
'Al Qaeda's highest-ranking operative in Southeast Asia'
"The prisoners were considered some of the most dangerous men among the hundreds of terror suspects locked behind the walls of a secretive and secure American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan. Their escape, however, might as well have been a breakout from the county jail".An interesting tale of four guys we didn't want escaping from our custody...or did we? Catch the third from last paragraph (below) in the story. Do you think Omar al-Faruq may have just gotten 'offed' when bin Laden read that? Is that an example of our government using the news against our enemies? You never know in this day and age of Judy Millers, Jeff Gannons, Armstrong Williams and the recent reporting of our 'buying' stories in Iraqi newspapers.
"In a recent interview, a former Bagram prisoner, Moazzam Begg, said he had heard during his detention there that American intelligence officers had once proposed staging an escape to release a detainee whom they wanted to act as a double agent against Al Qaeda. He said he had no knowledge that any such scheme had been carried out, and several American officials strongly dismissed the idea that that had happened with Mr. Faruq and the others".
