News from the Wana jihad. From AP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
WANA, Pakistan - Pakistan’s army has demolished several terrorist hideouts and killed 30 to 40 militants but failed to capture a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of targeting security forces in a tense tribal region, officials said Saturday.The troops took control of some militant strongholds and seized a weapons cache during the assault, launched this week in South Waziristan to capture foreign fighters and Pakistani militant leader Abdullah Mehsud, said Maj. Gen. Niaz Khatak, the army’s field commander....
Mehsud is accused of organizing the kidnapping last month of two Chinese engineers in the tribal region near Afghanistan, where they had been building a dam. One of the Chinese men was killed and one was rescued when commandos raided a home in South Waziristan. All five hostage-takers were killed.
Mehsud, 28, was freed in March after about two years of detention at the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
After returning to Pakistan, he emerged as a rebel leader, opposing Pakistan’s army as it hunts foreign militants and their supporters in the country’s semiautonomous tribal regions.
I suppose the Michael Moore school of thought explanation for this one is that being wrongly imprisoned at Guantanomo was what turned this maggot into a terrorist and not that he belonged there and that keeping him in a cage was appropriate treatment.
waterdragon~ that in itself is another reason we can't have any more activist judges appointed. And another big reason NOT to give Spectre the chairmanship. Just think what they could have done (to the country) with kerry in office...
Is Mehsud one of those, deemed by his military handlers, as no longer being of an intelligence value? Or of being innocently caught up in the furor the war? Obviously, Mehsud is a conniving worm, and a pitiful coward.
If Mehsud went one-on-one with either of those Chinese men, he would have come out second no doubt.
A rebel leader my ass. Jean Lafite was a rebel leader. Mehsud is a craven outlaw. He should have been let go with a tracking device planted somewhere on his "person".