Pictures obtained by CBS News from Pakistani sources are among the first public images ever to surface of a man U.S. intelligence officials call "one of the most dangerous people on the planet," CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Bob Orr reports.Be afraid! Be very afraid!
He is Pakistani warlord Baitullah Mehsud, the accused mastermind of the Benazir Bhutto assassination. An emerging leader, sources say, who threatens to eclipse Osama bin Laden as the world's top terrorist.
Terrorism analyst Christine Fair says Baitullah Mehsud is running a training camp for suicide bombers in Pakistan's off-limits tribal region -- a magnet for radical Islamic recruits from Europe and potentially the United States.
"He may not be out there cultivating people to send them abroad, but people abroad may seek him out for the operations that they conduct back home or elsewhere," Fair says.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I guess they couldn't keep dragging Osama out of the cave
And a new(!) brand(!) always captures the attention:
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Well, Osama bin Laden couldn't have been behind the Bhutto assassination, given that Bhutto said that Osama bin Laden was dead.
Michael, I posted on that amazing statement of hers. I bet he is dead, and the neocons had to keep him alive for the war and fearmongering. We need a bogeyman to be afraid of.
And dammit, Simon, I now have that song stuck in my head! Wayne Manure indeed!
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