Close associate of Osama bin Laden, Khaled al-Harbi, surrenders to Saudi

[jadedcherub]

security officials in Tehran (breaking on CNN)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1260463,00.html


==snip==

A suspected al-Qaida militant from Saudi Arabia has flown back to his homeland from the Iranian-Afghan border region to surrender under a government amnesty, state television said today.
Khaled al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, gave himself up at the Saudi embassy in Tehran, according to the report. Television pictures showed a wheelchair-bound Mr Harbi being carried off a plane on arrival in the kingdom.

"Thank God, Thank God ... I called the embassy and we were very well received," al-Harbi told reporters in the airport terminal. "I have come obeying God, and obeying the (kingdom's) rulers." Al-Harbi described the amnesty as a "generous offer" and urged other militants to take advantage of it. The amnesty, which has a duration of one month, promises to spare the lives of those militants who surrender.
==snip==

.jc.

[Birthmark]

1. Now, wait a minute!!!

In nearly three years, the US has been unable to catch a guy in a WHEELCHAIR?!

I'm going to Canada, I swear! I know for a fact that they once caught a guy on crutches in less than a year.

[cspiguy]

10. Khaliid - put him back in the Box, By God! - it was supposed to be

Next Tuesday, During Kerry's Convention!!! I hope you cashed that check, Allah be Praised...

[tom_paine]

11. No no no! Bin Laden is coming soon. Wait for it...

Probably right AFTER the Dem convention.

Maybe even a bit later than that.

[oly]

2. Every Tom, Dick and Harry that is "caught" will

be a close associate, HVT or some other BS until election time.

[maxsolomon]

3. anyone ever heard of this guy prior to this?

i haven't, but the names are getting confusing

[bluedog]

4. me neither

who is this guy....whats he done and how do they know about him?

[DeepModem Mom]

6. According to the article, he was on video w/ Osama...

praising 9/11:

"A Saudi security source said he was the man seen talking with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a videotape in which the two men praised the September 11 attacks in the United States."

[CaptainClark23]

9. reportedly married Al-Zawahri's daughter [N/T]

on edit: spelling.

[UpInArms]

5. I never heard of this

wheel-chair bound HVT, close militant associate named:

Khaled al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki

I wonder who has been pushing his chair for him?

[Pastiche423]

16. It must be a powerchair

since he was bound to the chair. He musta had his joystick programed to fire shoulder-launched missiles!

[happynewyear]

18. more on this here ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5430560/

Khaled al-Harbi is taken from an airliner to a waiting car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. :wtf:

<snip>

Al-Zawahiri's brother-in-law?
In the so-called "Dinner Party Tape," bin Laden describes planning for the Sept. 11 attacks, noting among other things that the final order was given the "Thursday before," meaning Sept. 6. The tape is the first in which bin Laden takes responsibility for the attacks and was made the month earlier in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

and ...

Osama bin Laden, left, chats with Khaled al-Harbi in a videotape captured in Afghanistan in late 2001.

the good ol' fat OBL photo we see ...

I never believed that one either ... :argh:

[ElementaryPenguin]

23. I dunno...he sure doesn't look like the same guy.

And being in the bullshit Fat Osama video...

:shrug:

[lucky777]

7. We can't get the one-legged man, so this will have to do!

I guess we couldn't get the one-legged, dead guy Zarqawi -- whom we hold responsible for every act of terrorism, global warming, terror alerts, beheadings, etc.

They are going to start pulling these also-ran Al-Qaida guys out their ass for the next four months!

The game is to keep our eyes off bin Laden. It's a shell game.

[underpants]

8. Under the amnesty period-Does he get off scot free?

Oh brother.

[peterh]

12. Omg…another legless man….

One has to wonder how many 6’6’’ and/or legless terrorists are giving us fits out there….:freak:


Asked how a legless man could get into Afghanistan to meet bin Laden, Powell said, "Obviously, there is a a connection between the two of sufficient formality to it that they were able to transport him there, get him access and move him into the country."

http://multimedia.belointeractive.com/attack/investigation/1216tape.html

[Birthmark]

13. I heard that they nearly caught that other guy, too.

What's his name? The one in the coma.... Anyway, he gave him the slip at the last second.

[daleo]

15. They think they might get the terrorist that started WWI soon

He shot that arch-duke guy. Anyway, they are closing in on him.

[tjwash]

14. Didn't catch the six foot five old man on dialysis yet I see...

...this one will have to do.

I feel....safe now.

[NNN0LHI]

17. Should read: Close associate of Fake Fat Osama bin Laden... n/t

[happynewyear]

20. the guy in the fat OBL picture doesn't look like the same person

Such a pile of crap! Sick of this!

So, we have some old alledged Arab in a wheelchair now - the "brother-in-law" of who? He is all covered up with a white sheet or is that a robe? ???????? :wtf: again ...

Gimme another one ... pleeeeeezzzzzzzeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

[NNN0LHI]

21. He looked more like Fidel Castro than Osama bin Laden

These idiots at the CIA can't even get their bad guys straight for the camera.

Don

[happynewyear]

22. it says in that MSNC article that he is disabled

from being shot a bunch of times.

He looks like he's very ill (given the alleged photo). :wtf:

This could be anyone, man, woman or beast with a beard taped on for Cheney You's sake!!

:dem:

[colonel odis]

19. could bin laden's family be protecting him?

hiding him?

if he's got the right people in saudi arabia saying 'leave him alone,' the bush administration isn't going to do squat.

aren't bin laden family members at or near the top of the carlyle group? poppy's bosses, in effect?