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I am not deeply into the conspiracy theories regarding all of the events, I am not even American in the first place. It is just something worth discussing to let the public know that there are always two sides to every story.
It might even be a wise miliatry strategy to let him live.
Al Qaeda member surrenders, Saudi Arabia says
In the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, is al Qaeda falling apart?
The Saudi Interior Ministry said today that a senior al Qaeda member on Riyadh's most-wanted list named Khaled al-Qahtani called from abroad and turned himself in.
"Interior Ministry's spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki said in a statement Wednesday that Khaled Hathal Abdullah al-Atifi al-Qahtani contacted the security authorities from an undisclosed country and expressed his wish to come home," the Associated Press reports.
"Al-Qahtani was reunited with his family and his surrender will be taken into consideration while looking into his case, Al-Turki said."
The Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman did not indicate when Khaled al-Qahtani gave himself up, but many members of the group's Yemeni wing, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have recently fled from Yemen, the AP writes.
It wasn't immediately possible to ascertain whether Khaled Al-Qahtani is the brother or relative of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi-born al Qaeda militant detained at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed al-Qahtani, now 32, had been picked up in the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan from which bin Laden is believed to have escaped.
UPDATE: The two men are not brothers, Gregory Johnson, a Yemen expert with Princeton University, told the Envoy:
"Al-Qahtani is a common Saudi name and there are many individuals in AQAP with that name...They may be related in some other more distant way."
You're gonna need to explain this, it makes little sense.The quasi-known whereabouts about him over the last 10 years, the amount of information that was known by officials of the secret intelligence, the compound's closeness to Pakistani military and the like are the glitches that do not follow logic into what actually happened.
These claims could be answered by the government, why don't they do it to clear it up?
Why are they apprehensive in releasing factual proof of information, like showing the body's pictures, for example?
Saddams hanging has more hits than Rebecca Black.
The exposure of the event and its speculation speak for themselves.
Endless questioning is not the proper way to discuss a topic, BVS.
I believe about 80% of what I hear.
i am too. But thats not to say I accept everything they say at face value. Or anyone for that matter.
I believe about 80% of what I hear.
The quasi-known whereabouts about him over the last 10 years, the amount of information that was known by officials of the secret intelligence, the compound's closeness to Pakistani military and the like are the glitches that do not follow logic into what actually happened. These claims could be answered by the government, why don't they do it to clear it up? Why are they apprehensive in releasing factual proof of information, like showing the body's pictures, for example?
I am not deeply into the conspiracy theories regarding all of the events, I am not even American in the first place. It is just something worth discussing to let the public know that there are always two sides to every story.
I believe 79%
Why are you so naive?
it's a rare thread that makes me feel like a conservative, or at least a conservative in the context of the discussion.
but this is one of them.
oh wow.
People need to use their brain.
To suggest there isn't proof is to suggest a cover-up or fabrication.
So Obama, Republicans, US Military, Pakistan, Bin Laden's wife...they're all in on it?
I get it, I really do. I want to see the photos myself. Maybe just out of curiosity. But we can't always accommodate paranoid people.
no thanks!
i'm glad they're not releasing any photos... that would be so distasteful for one thing, not to mention inflammatory!
On this rare occasion I agree with you, mateMe too....
I know that people jumped from the WTC on 9/11 - I don't need to see their crushed mutiliated bodies to prove it.
While the latter part of the quotation is all King (from his book Strength to Love) the first part was actually from a woman called Jessica Dovey, who expressed her feelings and then followed it with the MLK quote in a Facebook status.