October 12, 2004

Chinese Hostages Update: the Gitmo Connection

Three days ago I reported that two Chinese nationals were taken hostage in Pakistan's South Waziristan province--you may recall South Waziristan from such incidents as hiding fleeing al Qaeda leaders and Osama bin Laden's corpse is here. What I did not know was that the leader of the terrorists who had taken the hostages was one of those innocent victims who had been illegally held at Guantanamo Bay until all those great human rights activists and Geneva Convention conscience governments shamed the Bush administration into letting him go.

Get this:"Pakistan officials said the kidnappers were taking orders from [Abdullah] Mehsud, a former inmate of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, who now heads tribesmen fighting alongside al Qaeda fighters in South Waziristan..."

Go check out Simon's post on the subject. He has the goods on Abdullah and some of the other released Gitmo prisoners.

Note to self: Could Abdullah be one of my many Muslim fans?

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 08:43 AM | |