An update on the Al-Libbi saga from AP:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan “” Pakistan has handed over to the United States senior al-Qaida suspect Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who was wanted for two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an official said Monday.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani confirmed a reported comment by Musharraf published in a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates on Monday that al-Libbi had been handed over, but gave no further details…
Some officials have described al-Libbi as al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader, after Osama bin Laden and Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahri. However, he does not appear on the FBI list of the world’s most-wanted terrorists, and his exact role in al-Qaida is murky.
He was arrested May 2 after a shootout in northwestern Pakistan…
“Yes, we turned Abu Farraj al-Libbi over to the United States recently, and we don’t want people like him in our country,” Musharraf was quoted as saying…
Now there’s a sweeping statement. How much like him do they have to be? Is he going to expel 65% of the population of Pakistan?