March 07, 2010
— DrewM Here we go again.
Earlier it was reported by Pakistani media that intelligence agents had arrested Adam Gadahn, the American-born spokesman for al Qaeda, in an operation in the southern city of Karachi.It was further reported by the Associated Press and Reuters that Gadahn had been arrested, sourcing security officials.
CBS News was told by sources in the Pakistan government that it was Gadahn, even after U.S. officials refused to confirm it was the California native for whom a $1 million reward has been posted.
Now, CBS News' Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad writes that earlier reports the detained individual was Gadahn proved false. According to a Pakistan security official who spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity, the arrested individual is in fact "a Taliban militant leader who is known as Abu Yahya."
There's been so many stops and starts with this guy, who knows. On the upside, if it's not him that means he's still available for a special Hellfire missile delivery via a Predator drone.
Thanks to 'trailortrash' for the heads up in the original thread.
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Posted by: Waterhouse at March 07, 2010 01:47 PM (roAXJ)
Posted by: Nighthawk at March 07, 2010 01:48 PM (I44Os)
Posted by: torabora at March 07, 2010 01:50 PM (QfVNC)
Posted by: Just another worthless whitedude at March 07, 2010 01:50 PM (9vQ7f)
And what does it say that were fretting over contradictions between tow illegitimate news sources like NBC and CBS?
Posted by: Methos at March 07, 2010 01:51 PM (Xsi7M)
Posted by: RushBabe at March 07, 2010 01:51 PM (LKkE8)
Posted by: Janeane Garawfulo at March 07, 2010 01:51 PM (xpd3H)
Posted by: And The Beat Goes On at March 07, 2010 01:53 PM (Vu6sl)
Posted by: Knaws at March 07, 2010 01:55 PM (DxovE)
Posted by: Dan Rather at March 07, 2010 01:56 PM (W+E+o)
Posted by: Jayne on the left coast at March 07, 2010 01:56 PM (R2b9y)
I guess even these assholes cannot me even the finest of distinctions.
Posted by: TexBob at March 07, 2010 01:57 PM (2jp4I)
Posted by: Crusty at March 07, 2010 01:58 PM (qzgbP)
Posted by: Nighthawk at March 07, 2010 01:59 PM (I44Os)
Posted by: Blue Blazer Irregular at March 07, 2010 01:59 PM (xpd3H)
I swear this Gadahn guy has more lives than a cat and is slicker than a wet goat covered in Crisco.
Posted by: Blazer at March 07, 2010 01:59 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: Buddy Bizarre at March 07, 2010 02:00 PM (Yn2A0)
Posted by: exceller at March 07, 2010 02:00 PM (Z7Znk)
Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at March 07, 2010 02:01 PM (D7/BU)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 02:01 PM (p302b)
Why doesn't the Taliban have drivers ed and sex ed classes on the same day?
Because the camel can't handle it
Posted by: Blazer at March 07, 2010 02:02 PM (t72+4)
Thanks for the heads-up, we'll redouble our watch on the teabaggers and returning vets
Posted by: Janet Napolitano at March 07, 2010 02:04 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: Locus Ceruleus at March 07, 2010 02:04 PM (tzcjs)
Posted by: The Barbed Cock Of Satan, Flagging at March 07, 2010 02:05 PM (5F0nv)
Posted by: The MSM at March 07, 2010 02:05 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: Just another worthless whitedude at March 07, 2010 02:05 PM (9vQ7f)
Posted by: bergerbilder at March 07, 2010 02:06 PM (S1Ttj)
Dan Blather, the most distinguised CBS correspondent and bullshitter ever, confirms the captured man is not Adam Gadahn, but is a very close relative of Dick Cheney's who renounced his family and all the conservative ideals they espoure to persue a life of liberal excellence in Pockestan.
Posted by: Fish at March 07, 2010 02:06 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: King Barry I at March 07, 2010 02:06 PM (sYxEE)
Such great difficulties, to capture these people & in such a terrain. How many of them are there, in total? Wishing it was Gadahn...
Posted by: Miss'80s at March 07, 2010 02:06 PM (sZ+lP)
Posted by: Pecos Bill at March 07, 2010 02:07 PM (8WOM0)
Posted by: Flavius Julius at March 07, 2010 02:07 PM (IrdrP)
So now we believe CBS News? Where's the throbbing memo? The exploding gas tanks? The live webcam of Walter Cronkite's rotting corpse?
But mostly the webcam of Walter Cronkite's rotting corpse.
Posted by: The Barbed Cock Of Satan, Flagging at March 07, 2010 02:07 PM (5F0nv)
Posted by: eman at March 07, 2010 02:08 PM (D7/BU)
there's an easier way, Miss'80s. of course, it means turning the place into a glowing glass parking lot...
Posted by: mrfixit at March 07, 2010 02:09 PM (Bsm1s)
Posted by: Dan Rather at March 07, 2010 02:09 PM (W+E+o)
So, the linguistics lesson of the day is: "Arabs lie".
I'm so edified.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 07, 2010 02:09 PM (5F0nv)
Remember, just because the biggest consumers of energy on the planet are there on your tv doesn't mean you should ignore their calls for you to sacrifice in order to save the planet.
I can't wait to see what Oscar they give me.
Posted by: King Barry I at March 07, 2010 02:09 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: Dan Rather at March 07, 2010 02:11 PM (W+E+o)
And for Best Actor in a motion picture, the Academy awards the Oscar to Adam Gadahn for impersonating an American while living in a cave and wiping his ass with his hand.
Posted by: Fish at March 07, 2010 02:12 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: eman at March 07, 2010 02:13 PM (D7/BU)
Wrong!
Sarah Palin
Rush Limbaugh
Glen Beck
Sean Hannity
Ann Coulter
Michelle Backman
Mark Levin
The Teabaggers
Posted by: King Barry I at March 07, 2010 02:13 PM (sYxEE)
Yes, but how are you supposed to capture them when you can't do that? Never really read a book or seen any policy that could answer that one. Lots of great theories, but not always practical.
Posted by: Miss'80s at March 07, 2010 02:13 PM (sZ+lP)
Hatred of toilet paper and indoor plumbing has a direct correlation with tectonic activity. True fact.
Posted by: Your Friends at at March 07, 2010 02:14 PM (5F0nv)
Posted by: Pelayo's 1911 A1 at March 07, 2010 02:14 PM (8NGHm)
Oh, well.
The Twinkies done run out. Where's my motherfuckin' pony?
Posted by: Oprah at March 07, 2010 02:15 PM (5F0nv)
Posted by: arhooley at March 07, 2010 02:18 PM (oWDQi)
My 2 cents: This is why we need an Intellegence Agency that relies more on HumanINT, like Mossad does, and is willing to make shady deals to get the big fish. Probably won't ever happen again for a long time, though.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at March 07, 2010 02:18 PM (otlXg)
Posted by: Sox at March 07, 2010 02:19 PM (cySwG)
Posted by: dan in michigan at March 07, 2010 02:19 PM (9jRMu)
Posted by: bergerbilder at March 07, 2010 02:20 PM (S1Ttj)
and is willing to make shady deals to get the big fish. Probably won't ever happen again for a long time, though.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at March 07, 2010 06:18 PM (otlXg)
Very disturbing on many levels sir.
Posted by: Fish at March 07, 2010 02:20 PM (M5t+h)
Probably has a similar list for Senators and Representative, although it would be smaller than your list.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at March 07, 2010 02:20 PM (otlXg)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 07, 2010 02:21 PM (cpuvG)
Waste of good pudding.
Posted by: lincolntf at March 07, 2010 02:21 PM (cGaVN)
Query: Do Muslim men use condoms when humping their goats, or is this considered unprotected or unprecedented sex?
Posted by: Fish at March 07, 2010 02:22 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 02:24 PM (p302b)
Wait, they can still do that? I thought because of the digital conversion, you couldn't get signal with the rabbit ears. Or can that work with the newer TVs?
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at March 07, 2010 02:26 PM (otlXg)
Posted by: nickless reliving leftard retardery at March 07, 2010 02:26 PM (MMC8r)
Maybe they wanted you to notice this: "Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America"
I wonder if they fear a backlash? Or is that part of their plan?
Posted by: ErikW at March 07, 2010 02:27 PM (KhztE)
He is widely known to have shared a canteen of camel piss with bin Laden in 1987.
And it only cost us $27,000,000,000 and a copy of Hustler.
Posted by: Stuttering Gibbs tomorrow at March 07, 2010 02:29 PM (4v8X7)
If I was in NY and I cared about the Oscars I'd be all set. None of those things apply, so I'll shut up now.
Posted by: lincolntf at March 07, 2010 02:31 PM (cGaVN)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 02:33 PM (p302b)
Wouldn't they have to change all the guidelines set by the Church Commission?
"They were very specific about their effort to destroy American intelligence [capabilities]," remembers Robert Ellsworth, a U.S. diplomat. "It was Senator Church who said our intelligence agencies were 'rogue elephants.' They were supposedly out there assassinating people and playing dirty tricks and so forth...Well, that just wasn't true." Rumsfeld and Ellsworth prevented the committees from dismantling the CIA and other intelligence organizations.
Posted by: Miss'80s at March 07, 2010 02:34 PM (sZ+lP)
The more bad guys that lose sleep, the better I feel.
I'll buy T-shirts with that agency's logo on them for my whole family and send flowers to the director on Valentine's Day.
But I'm just a simple Tea-partier.
Posted by: sifty at March 07, 2010 02:38 PM (4v8X7)
Maybe they wanted you to notice this: "Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America"
They are only going to create more Americans..
Posted by: JavaJoe at March 07, 2010 02:48 PM (e9JZd)
My Toshiba flat-screen I bought at Xmas 2008 works fine with rabbit ears. Earlier models may require purchase of a digital converter box.
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 07, 2010 02:49 PM (JkUVD)
Posted by: Jones at March 07, 2010 02:51 PM (JL3qV)
Yes, which is why I had the "probably won't ever happen again for a long time" caveat. The only thing that would expedite the needed changes would be a huge attack (on the scale of nuking several cities) on US soil, and then it would be too late.
At least in the end, there will be only chaos.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at March 07, 2010 02:56 PM (otlXg)
Wait, they can still do that? I thought because of the digital conversion, you couldn't get signal with the rabbit ears. Or can that work with the newer TVs?
Yes you can get digital signals over the air but they don't travel as far. The funny thing with digital is that you don't get the choice of good signal or snowy. You get good signal or no signal.
And all TVs have an input for signal. If all y7ou have is a 75 ohm coax input you just get a transformer. Most of the converters have a 75 ohm output though and also a component output.
Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2010 02:57 PM (QrA9E)
You know when you buy a tv and they have all those letters after it...like ATSC, well apparently if your tv has an ATSC tuner inside already it becomes important and enables you to use the rabbit ears without the digital converter and if you buy the right rabbit ears you get a digital hd signal over the air, for free, totally free. See my friends in NY have flat screen cause they live in half million dollar walk in closets so the first thing they do is buy a bran new flat screen and put it up on the wall so they can see it throughout the closet.
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 02:59 PM (p302b)
Posted by: dr kill at March 07, 2010 03:00 PM (zzCI3)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 03:01 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Ashton Kutcher at March 07, 2010 03:02 PM (UsjBj)
I think they were waiting for confirmation by the US government and it didn't come.
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 03:02 PM (p302b)
Posted by: scif at March 07, 2010 03:04 PM (u0TUp)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 03:06 PM (p302b)
There's an entertaining midrange. At least, it's entertaining if you don't care what's on the the screen.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2010 03:09 PM (OkT2m)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 03:10 PM (p302b)
Posted by: dr kill at March 07, 2010 03:19 PM (zzCI3)
if you buy the right rabbit ears you get a digital hd signal over the air, for free, totally free
Any rabbit ears will work. I am using a 10' string of plain wire connected to a transformer pluged into the 75 ohm input on my converter box for the old TV upstairs.
Also, if some TVs are not working try moving the antena to in front of a window. In some buildings with sheet metal sheeting on the outside or a lot of rebar in the concrete those things act as Faraday Cages and block any electronic signal from getting in or out.
Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2010 03:20 PM (QrA9E)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 07, 2010 07:09 PM (OkT2m)
LOL, that is the drop-out you get just before you are about to lose it totally.
Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2010 03:21 PM (QrA9E)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 07, 2010 03:24 PM (3/JCS)
Posted by: Ding at March 07, 2010 03:44 PM (Xomyd)
Posted by: John Galt at March 07, 2010 03:51 PM (Ylv1H)
Ditto on that. Out here in the sticks where they said we would get no digital service at all most people still get half a dozen channels.
Posted by: John Galt at March 07, 2010 03:57 PM (Ylv1H)
Posted by: ParisParamus at March 07, 2010 04:09 PM (flcpl)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 04:21 PM (p302b)
Posted by: curious at March 07, 2010 04:24 PM (p302b)
Cleaning up the mess before it is a mess. The Chicago way.
Posted by: goats of no's passed at March 07, 2010 05:35 PM (PI/0J)
I don't know how many American-born Al Qaeda members they have, but maybe the Pakis assumed all the white boys looked alike.
Posted by: SGT Dan at March 07, 2010 05:45 PM (XYTie)
I'm pretty sure he's Pierre Gaspard's aid (or one of his aids), working out of the West Wing.
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