Good News: Got Another One In Pakistan<\/p>\n\n
Bad News: Why are so many of them in Pakistan?<\/a><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n Pakistani officials also told The Associated Press that Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a dual Syrian-Spanish national with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, had been flown out of the country to an unspecified location. \n Nasar was captured in a November sting in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta that left one person dead, \n …It would not be the first time Pakistan _ a key U.S. ally in the war against terrorism _ has detained al-Qaida terrorists and turned them over to the Americans.<\/p>\n Pakistan says it has captured more than 750 al-Qaida suspects since the Sept. 11 attacks and has handed most of them to the United States. <\/blockquote>\n\n Now adjusting for reportage (e.g. folks captured elsewhere are less likely to get the press conference treatment than Pakistani’s seems to give), it says a lot about the state of governance in Pakistan that the Northwest Frontier is somehow a more hospitable place for these folks than… say… Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good News: Got Another One In Pakistan Bad News: Why are so many of them in Pakistan? A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Osama bin Laden’s training camps to extremist networks in Europe has been captured in Pakistan, … Continue reading A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Osama bin Laden’s training camps to extremist networks in Europe has been captured in Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement official confirms for the first time.\n