WorldNetDaily: Who was hiding al-Qaida sheikh?

There's good news and bad news in the arrest in Pakistan of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the operational leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network, says a top intelligence analyst.


While there is no disputing the importance of Mohammed as a top figure in Osama bin Laden's organization and that he was an organizer of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, Joseph deCourcy writes in the latest issue of his weekly intelligence newsletter that the arrest took place in the home of a leader of a major Pakistani political party.


Thus, he suggests, the arrest once again raises questions about the reliability of Pakistan as a partner in the war against Islamist terrorism.


Mohammed was nabbed in the house of the son of a local leader of Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami, a group that is part of the Islamist-orientated Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, or MMA.[...]

[...]"So Mohammed, one of al-Qaida's most-important leaders, was found in the house of a leader of a major Pakistani political party that has growing public support and which shares power with the ruling party in a key province while controlling another province outright," writes deCourcy. "Furthermore, the house where he was arrested was not an isolated refuge in North West Frontier Province or Baluchistan, but in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the Pakistan army and the home of President Musharraf himself." [...]