Jul 302004
I posted a few weeks back about a report saying that the Pakistanis were under enormous pressure to come up with a major Al Qaeda operative either during the Democratic National Convention or before the election (credit to Josh Marshall for originally pointing it out).
Lo and behold, today only a few hours before John Kerry is to accept the nomination as presidential candidate for his party, there’s a report of a "top Al Qaeda figure" from all of the major news sites. It’s not Bin Laden, but Ahmed Ghailani, a suspect in the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa. Note that he was captured on Sunday, but they conveniently waited until now to announce it.
Wow.