U.S. government knows of no al Qaida arrest in Pakistan

[laststeamtrain]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

U.S. government knows of no al Qaida arrest in Pakistan
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers 1 hr 53 mins ago

WASHINGTON — Despite numerous news reports that Pakistan has arrested an American al Qaida operative in the port city of Karachi , the U.S. government is unaware that anyone affiliated with the terrorist network, American or otherwise, has been captured in Pakistan recently, U.S. officials said Monday.

"None of this appears to be fact at this point," said a U.S. official who asked not to be further identified because the official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

U.S. and international news reports that first appeared Sunday quoted unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials as saying that Pakistani agents in Karachi had arrested Adam Gadahn, a Californian who'd converted to Islam and oversees al Qaida's propaganda operations.

Gadahn, 31, is the most wanted American member of al Qaida and the first U.S. citizen since the 1940s to be charged with treason.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100309/wl_mcclatchy/3446280

[Schema Thing]

1. So *whoever* it is, has been beaten beyond recognition?

[imnKOgnito]

2. I thought we were allowed to just kill them now. n/t

[The abyss]

3. Well of course Adam (Perlman) Gadahn doesn’t work for Al Qaida!

I thought it was always clear he worked for Al CIAda?

Obviously they didn’t arrest an Al Qaida operative…. They arrested a…..

Oh well – I am sure the state department has squared away Pakistani intelligence by now.

[yurbud]

4. every time I hear al Qaeda, I expect the rest of the sentence to be bullshit