BREAKING: High-level al-Qaeda Operative with bin Laden ties captured

Jim Lynch March 14th, 2008 2:18 pm

Although no time frame has yet been provided, this story is just breaking on the internet.

BBC News:

A top al-Qaeda figure suspected of having close ties to Osama Bin Laden has been taken to the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the Pentagon says.


Reuters via Yahoo News
:

The detainee, Muhammad Rahim, helped prepare the Tora Bora caves used as a hideout for bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

Rahim also attempted to procure chemicals for a plan to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan and to recruit people with access to U.S. military facilities, Whitman said.

(h/t Macsmind)

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