BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Al-Qaeda brain' praised as hero

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the alleged al-Qaeda mastermind arrested last weekend in Pakistan - is a "hero of Islam", Pakistan's largest Islamic party has said.


A spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami, Amirul Azeem, said the Pakistani Government, acting on US orders, had committed a "shameful sell-out".


The outspoken endorsement of Sheikh Mohammed is an indication of the difficulties Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf may face in reconciling his urge to assist US anti-terrorism efforts with rising anti-American sentiment at home.


Regional scorn for such support was reflected in a message sent to the BBC from a militant Kashmiri group condemning Islamabad's decision to hand him over to the US.[...]

Just putting pieces together, thinking aloud as it were...so Al Qaeda and the KSM-types are considered bad by most of the world, including the Muslim world, and there's no such thing as irrational anti-Americanism, just good, legitimate reasons for feeling that way, so there shouldn't be any trouble or loss of political clout in turning a guy like this over, even if the USA is otherwise demonic, cause everyone agrees he's bad, BUT the USA and anyone who wants to be our friends have to be carefull about cooperating too much, even if in a good cause, because even if we go after someone everyone is supposed to agree is bad, all those rational folks who dislike us for only the most legitimate of reasons might take it badly and...hey, GET OUT OF MY HEAD!


Update: Just saw Mansoor Ijaz on O'Reilly and he was saying that Pakistan had been utterly quiet on the arrest - no newspaper editorial denunciations, no street demonstrations. Perhaps he missed this article.