
“Last week, US special forces captured one Abu Anas Al-Libi, suspected of having taken part in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa that killed 224 and injured some four thousand. Good. But the US government treated the event as ‘a major victory’ especially for US intelligence in the ‘war against al Qaeda.’ The Journal went on to describe Al-Libi as ‘an intelligence gold mine’ who can tell us ‘the ways that al Qaeda is decentralizing and expanding in Africa,’ and to urge the government to get this war-winning information out of him by…well, you know… This is fantasy. It shows deadly misunderstanding of intelligence and of the war we are in.”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4760
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