July 21, 2008
Al-Qaida senior leader grants rare TV interview
Deep Background is reporting a RARE face to face interview that was granted to a GEO reporter with one of Al Qaeda's major players.
In a rare move, one of al-Qaida's highest-ranking leaders has conducted an on-camera interview with a journalist and, in the process, called for the destruction of Pakistan's government.It was the first time since 2002 that any top al-Qaida official has taken the security risk of sitting down for an interview with a bonafide journalist.
Abu Mustafa al-Yazid, an Egyptian whom U.S. intelligence officials have identified as the al-Qaeda's third highest-ranking official, sat for an interview with Najeeb Ahmad, a reporter for Geo TV. Geo TV is a private Pakistani television channel.
Why would they risk his operational security to issue a boilerplate "the Pakistan government betrayed us" message to the masses. What else is going on here.....number three (operations chief) in al Qaeda is too important to risk for a sit down with a local journalist.
