SHOULDN'T THIS INFORMATION BE KEPT SECRET , AT LEAST FOR A WHILE UNTILL THIS GUY IS QUSTIONNED AND GROUND FORCES MAKE USE IF WHATEVER INFORMATION HE HAS.

We should do something spectacular to him to mark the 9/11 anniversary. Mercy doesn't exist in his realm, it shouldn't when dealing with him either.

Why is this not the lead story? It seems much more important to most Americans than the sad, sensationalist story of JonBenet.

Get all the information they can from this thug and put a bullet in his head and be done with him!

This is not only a victory for America but for all countries that have been affected by terrorists. The Pakistan government should be commended for their effort in these matters.

I am glad they caught this man, however, in the article they said "The London Plot MAY have been it". In other words, we are still in danger anad will always be in danger.

An hope they get the rest

What can you say other than great. . . I hope they get some leads on Zawahiri and bin Laden.

Just you watch, the Bush Administration will take full credit for this latest catch.

If Bill Clinton were president, terrorism would be better dealt with. Hillary Clinton will make a much better president than George Bush. She and her staff will know how to deal with the terrorist much better the the Bush Regime. The Bush Regime is very concerned that the Clintons will again control the Whitehouse and cause the economy to flourish once more.

I thank that this is great news. The only problem I have with this is that it should be delayed in reporting so that others can be arrested. Some time the News is just to fast in coming out and it hurts the process of finding other guilty people. Stop being so aggressive in reporting this type of News. Give the Police a chance to get all of them.

Boy, I sure hope they give him his koran and 3 squares a day for being such a good boy.

Good news on the war on terror. Thanks to our President and all of our allies around the world! This proves once again the great "willing" teamwork is paying off. Now if we could only get our "free left-wing press" on board we could expedite peace.

Where is Bin Laden ? we seem to forget him and we always go after the other guys

One has to wonder whether the publicity of this arrest will have any effect on finding Bin Laden.

How come we can't follow the guy who makes the video tapes of Al Zawahiri to find out where he is?
I understand he has been interviewed several times and is well known to the CIA. Al Qaeda even has a mobile video van that apparently has not even been put under surveillance.
I bet ABC news could find Al Zawahiri a lot faster than the CIA ever could if they tried.

Why would we need to make this public once again? Wouldn't it be better to follow the leads as quickly as possible before word gets out he was caught? Instead just stick it on the internet for everyone to see.

Awesome... gold stars and cigars for everyone.

Rex,
I bet if ABC News did find al-Zawahiri that they wouldn't leak that info.

Excellent news. Now, let the Pakistanis connect his gonads to a 12-volt car battery and we'll find out what he knows. Then shoot the miserable creep in the head and dump him in a ditch somewhere.

(Actually, John, the reason the Pakistanis and the CIA may have wanted to publicize the arrest is to get others to panic and reveal their locations. Kinda like cockroaches scurrying off in every direction once the light is turned on. Then we can follow them and see where they lead us.)

To the person who made the comment about Bill Clinton:

Bill Clinton actually had many chances at Bin Laden in the 90s but bungled everytime! The most damaging point is this: he treated Bin Laden as a law enforcement problem - not a terrorist problem.

Now, please clear your noggin of the blues and try to figure out precisely why we do NOT need anymore bungling Clintons in the WH.

ive been hidin is a laugh. all he does is hide and make video tapes. have any of you ever seen video of these areas in afghanistan and pakistan where these mountain goats hide? it so high up you cannot opperate equipment. this guy,khalid and zarqawi were bigger threats than bin hidin is now. whos more important, ones trying to attack us now, or a crimminal that cannot show his face anywhere in the world, without being gunned down. sounds like success to me. ofcourse, wolfowitzs iraq plan is a different subject, ouch!

Hey Smartguy.
If Clinton were president he would be chasing skirts not terrorists!!

Probably the Democrats want to first apologize to the man for whatever it is he dislikes us for (usually their shortcommings); Then name a commission to FIX whatever they dislike of the USA and its citizens; and last, sit and wait for another 9/11 to happen. GAR

Why don't we stop wondering who to give credit to. Rather, be thankful that this guy was caught, regardless of who's in office or not.

Good. Now all we have to do is get some innocent people out of these countries and nuke em!

Maybe they should get Mike Wallace to sit down with him and interview him about why he wants to do this to us. We could also find out what he likes to do in his free time and how his family is. I think that would definatley help us understand, dont you? I have really been wondering what he thinks of President Bush and Tony Blair.

Pakistani officials armed al Qaeda for us when Afghanistan was under Soviet rule.

I still firmly believe all this is a massive hoax.. Centralization of power is the objective, along with spurring the drug trade in order to finance our larger corporations, as well as oil...

It's all about the money.

Some very interesting comments. Where to start?!? First off get what ya can out of the guy and then kill him. Any other country in the world wouldn't care and would kill the guy. No terrorist should be left alive. Hey is they want us to live by Allah then I say hey why not. Allah says kill infidels. This man is an infidel and well kill him. In fromt of everyone. Eye for an eye like the bible says. Secondly, yet Clinton had many chanes to rid the world but politics got in the way. Do you know that before all this started we actually did have bin laden in the cross hairs but the shot wasn't fired. Just like Saddam. Before the First gulf war we had a special forces team practically sitting in Saddams lap for years. But no, we could not be the assassins. What a shame.

Bill Clinton handling terrorism better than the Bush administration? We can thank Clinton for not capturing Bin Laden when the Afghanistan government offered him up. The Democrats have no idea what it takes to defend freedom they want a dependent base of voters that elect them into office. They only can complain about problems, too bad they are not smart enough to solve them.

Hey Jimmy,

Unless you suddenly lost the ability to comprehend the written word, it appears that the person in question was...arrested. You know like a police kind of law enforcement effort. Sort of like the law enforcement effort in London that lead the authorities in Packistan to him.

So apparently, law enforcement is an effective means of dealing with the issue, no?

And please, enough with all of your "its all Clintons fault" nonesense. The most disasterous policy decisions and terrible attacks all occurred under the current administrations watch, period. Grow up and accept some responsibility for a change.

Best way to extract information from these murderers ??
Tie them up against a tree in a wooded area filled with fireant nests, drizzle maple syrup in their pants, and leave them alone overnight.. and.. Voila..!! Come back next morning and they will be more than willing to spill the beans.. Simple, aint it ?? Hey, its not torture.. We are just feeding the ant colony.. ;)

I'm perplexed by the idiocy of some of these comments. Few Democrats, save Nancy Grace, would actually apologize to any terrorist. In fact, if you remember the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry, indeed a liberal, opposed the Iraq war because he felt it did not address the prime concerns of the misnamed War on Terror; Sen. Kerry thought that focusing on the capture of Osama bin Laden was the key to disrupting al-Queda.

To label Democrats as all being left-wing, angst-driven, spineless bleeding-hearts would be a mistake; one could just as well argue that Republicans are all elitist, trigger-happy, cold-blooded, fascist baby-killers. The facts support neither conclusion.

In reality, the left-wing "feels" whilst the right-wing "thinks"; the conservatives favor less government whilst the liberals favor more; the Democrats and Republicans simply attack and complain about each other (while standing for nothing).

Can somebody please explain to me how is it that they can find all these other "bad guys" but not bin laden? And can we please bring our troops home, it is rather obvious that they do not want our help or training that we are providing them. No matter what we do they are going to keep killing - let them kill their own people and bring our people home!! Bush needs to focus on the problems here within the US. For instance, the child abuse issue, the sexual acts against children issue, the children that are starving or being neglected or beaten just because. As for Bin Laden - he is probably sitting right here in the US on a Beach sippin' Margaritas. - and who is laughing at who these days? Get a F'n clue Bush and focus on your own country and let the others deal with their own problems for awhile!!!

Why can't our 2 party system get along? Since the minority party always tries it's best to destroy whatever the majority party is doing, I want to suggest that the party that has the most seats after an election gets ALL OF THEM so they can't 1)blame someone else for their failings and 2)be held back by someone else in their efforts. This war will never end until we ALL pull together in the fight, yes, it's a fight regardless of who thinks they can talk their way out of it with these nut cases who won't work unless it involves killing.

Why does everyone think that keeping the arrest quiet will lead to more arrests? The very second that he was arrested, word was on its way back to Bin Laden.

Great news! Why shouldn't the press give it, all of the terrorist already knew he'd been caught. I hope Pakistan exports him to the USA so we can try and sentence him to some deep hole in the ground for life while feeding him bacon, pork chops and ham every meal. Oh, and free lard based hand lotion to keep his hands soft!

As far as the political comments, they just intend to split and divide the USA--cut out that crap and join together in joy at Rehman's capture! Another of Satin's own is down the tubes!

God bless our troops!
tmblweed

At least no one died while Clinton was having his consensual dalliances with Ms. Lewinsky!!

Bush has killed almost as many Americans as bin Laden and his boys.

1st of all to Brandon. Do you honestly believe that we have forgotten about Bin Laden, just because the CIA does not dissiminate to everyone what their operations section is doing? Get real, and pull your head out.

2nd to Rex. How many cutouts do you think that tape goes through, before it ever gets into the hands of the man delivering it? Dead drops, blind cutouts, and such have been a part of tradecraft since the intel business got started. Then again, it's probably in the CIA's best interest to have everyone thinking they are incompetent.

If Bill Clinton had spent as much energy defending America as he did on cheating on his wife, 9/11 wouldn't have happened.

The blood is on his hands and all those who apologize for him.

Our military should tie a peroxide bomb to him and drop him from an airplane over the atlantic. tell him it's an altitude detonator, but make sure it's non functional so he keeps waiting for the boom until he hit's the water. Then have a last minute parachute deploy and make sure that he lands safely, with a life vest on, in waters that are pre-chummed to attract sharks. Tell him he can only board a nearby boat if he gives up Bin Laden and Zawahiri.

Through this method, a confession could be extracted with no real torture being inflicted on the victim, lest we upset the French.

Golly, I certainly hope that our forces don't use any sort of coercive interrogation tactics on this guy, or do anything that would humiliate him or make him uncomfortable for the purposes of getting information out of him.

Aww, who am I kidding. Red's positive, black's negative, boys.

3rd to John. Do you honestly believe that the info about his release was leaked before they could use any info from him? We are talking about an Islamic country, where the government controls the media here.

Gary,

It's not so much that the Democrats can't solve these problems. It's more that if they ever do solve the problems, they lose the sub-class of voters, dependant on govt handouts, that keep voting Democrats into office.

Finally to MJBarry. The planning and setup for 9/11 occured on Clintons watch. The missed opportunity to get Bin Laden happened on Clintons watch. Last but not least, if Bin Laden attacked our embassies while Bush was in office, the cruise missles we launched would have been followed by a few Marine Regimental Combat teams. Instead ole Billy just sent some missles in and called it a day.

I agree with FADI.....wanna know why we can't catch any of these
terrorists? We tell them we have info on them so that they can go and hide!!

this is good news...why the partisan bickering? Terrorists aren't checking voting records. Consider the possibility that both parties have some good ideas, and maybe teamwork is the best option. Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

Mmmm, hard licks happen to bad people. Another evil clown down. Applause for this. ...The spearhead and driving force behind the international war against RMT's (drink in this cutesy way of saying Radical Muslim Terrorists) is...(wolf cry)... the President! His aggressiveness weakens, harms, declaws and dismays an incorrigible ENEMY--whereas conciliatory attempts to empathize and negotiate empowers, emboldens and amuses them, lends a tone of art noir to their program of murder. You will recall that we are all "infidels"--and the RMT's deeply, truly and sincerely believe it is their duty and glory to OFF us, and THAT they do, and THAT they will, except to the extent they are met with unremitting, nonnegotiable, utter, destructive force. Then, after that, the world can have a big party.

I am pleased to see the comments about not giving so much information as too quickly. Im a brit and simply cannot understand the way the media insists on publishing explicit details of crimes very early in thier investigation. It can only jeopardise the trials of suspects. The guy who has confessed to the pagent girls murder is an example. his defence will simply say he read it all in the media so he cannot have a fair trial. case dismissed!

You people in the news really do give to much info. From telling are weak spots to jumping the gun so others can run and hide. You make it difficult to protect us and very easy for the bad guys to get us!!

MJBarry:
Thanks for the reply -
I see in your post no denial that Clinton bungled getting Bin Laden in the 90s precisely because he treated the issue as a matter of law enforcement as opposed to a terrorist issue (however, you do seem to make the common mistake of forgetting that treating the issue as a terrorist issue will of course include law enforcement elements.)
Thankfully the current administration has understood the two approaches and has chosen wisely -hence the current administration's multiple successes in landing these big fish (witness today for instance) as opposed to Clinton's bungling.
My point to the original post was that we did NOT need to go back to the obviously ineffective approach of the Clinton era. Politics aside, I'm sure you'd agree with that correct?

It appears to me that we have George W. Bush himself here posting comments (Brad)! Bush is god right? He does everything right huh? Its not his fault that 9/11 happened right? No he just ALLOWED it to happen! Its Clintons fault we are at war in Iraq AND Afghanistan right? No BUSH sent in those Marines and still didnt get Bin Laden huh!

Our leaders do know where Bin Laden is and will not touch him for fear of pissing off our "friends" in Saudi Arabia... Like the zarquai capture, it was a bargaining chip. They give us a carrot so we will not go after the steak...

Oh and you guys are all too much wound up about Shrub. He is NOT the problem, it is Rummy and crew, who have been running the repub party for MANY years now.

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Sorry I am still a little confused about the difference between terrorism as a criminal act and terrorism as a ... ahhh ... non-criminal act ..... no that can't be it .... ahhhh ... o a criminal act. Unless these characters are Terroristanis they are nothing more than criminals. If you believe the previous methodology was ineffective then why do you think the current program would work any better.

Isn't it interesting that these "senior al Qaeda" commanders are suddenly found right after a terror plot is uncovered. They most certainly have been pursued for a long time before this. Somebody built a fire under the power in Pakistan. The politcs of terror...

Don't forget to thank the British Investigators for foiling the plot of these angry heartless people who by the way were made this way by the Bigot-rich-elite (who probably run the church...oops!) themselves over the dealing of black gold and God knows what else. Oh yeah, Why don't these great men of God pitch in to fight Al Qaeda leaders' ideology as well as (EIA's) England, Israel, America, the corrupted who lead us to war. Pat Robertson gets politicl against Hugo Chavez, but what politically attacking Bush to find Bin Laden?...ooopps, must not say too much.

How can anybody claim that Bush is hard on terrorism when he's had 5 years to catch the worst terrorist in US history, and he responded by pulling the bait and switch, throwing our troops into an Iraq quagmire rather than focus on the real problem? He's killed 100,000 people the world over, but has continually missed the 2 that count. Great job, Dubya. This is exactly what we'd expect from a straight C student who's failed spectacularly in every single task he's ever been given. Oh well, we'd better go drop some more bombs on brown people to appease the ignorant redneck masses who demand blood.

For the record, that straight C student had a higher GPA at Yale than one of his very famous contemoraries... ...John Kerry. It's why Kerry didn't want to release his military records during the campaign. His college grade transcripts are a part of that record. Funny how the media didn't do much with that info when Kerry finally released the records after the election.

ITMFA:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but being hard on terrorism is way more than about just nabbing one guy. We're at war man. Bin Laden is merely one manifestation of the enemy that seeks to destroy *us*. Ahmedinejad is another manifestation. So are Hezbollah, Assad, Hamas, the IFs in Somalia, Sudan, etc... Saddam was a big fish too, as was Qaddafi (you forgot about ole Omar now didn't you? - in my day a common phrase used to be "Libyan terrorist", but thanks to the current administration's war against terrorists in Iraq ole Omar gave up without a fight, and I have yet to hear anyone use that phrase anymore or give credit to where it's due.)

Bush has indeed been hard and quite effective on terrorism: addressing the issue as it really is - a global widescale war - engage the enemy on all fronts wherever it's manifestations choose to rear their ugly heads - and please be forewarned (ala Bush): this is going to be a long battle. Getting this guy today was really nice. Getting BL will be a great victory - but don't expect an end to the war that we're *all* in. It's time we *Americans* woke up to this fact. Red and Blue.

I hate it when so-called "good, patriotic" Americans state that we should act as ruthless as the terrorists. Don't you people get it? These guys are inspired to attack us because so many of us are willing to give up our ideals. These ideals are what made us a great nation, not resorting to childish temptations to strike back anytime we are scared. get over yourselves. Thsi country will survive as a great country because some of us refuse to give up our lofty principles. No first strike policy will ever produce a good outcome.

simply put catch the terrorist kill the terrorist ....Give them some of there own medicine for a while....Clinton was a total idiot and Bush is only slightly better ...Have our troops stand back and let these fools kill each other off in Iraq .that will leave less of these fools that we have to track down...

So if Gore won in 2000 9/11 would never have happen? My God liberals crack me up.

So does Bill Clinton and all the bleeding heart liberals still think that this has nothing to do with the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism? I can't hear you now Hollywood what did you say?

Soon the term "Liberal" will be considered politically incorrect.

THIS IS ANOTHER MILESTONE IN THE WAR ON TERROR.WE WILL NEVER FORGET
911. AMERICA IS NOW AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

Wow.

Some of the anti-Bush comments here make me wonder whether we're going to have a shortage on tinfoil...

May be time to buy ALCOA stock...

Yes it should have been kept secret , for perhaps he could lead us to Bin Laden etc. Now Bin Laden could move on.

Actually Mike you would have to know why it occurred before you could ask your question.

Great, another one bites the dust - but why aren't you reporting on the incident in West Virginia today - you know, where a bomb sniffing dog alerted on a woman carrying a bottle of water in her carry-on luggage. I had to find out about that on BBC and Fox.

Like all wars before, it is about money. The longer the war(s) last the more profits big oil and steel suppliers and bankers and investors make! Bin Laden is a Pawn on the chess board of the Board of Directors World Wide. PERIOD!

Bush and the Republicans have politicized the terrorism threat and betrayed the American people from September 12th on, while making us less safe.

Bush and members of his Admin. repeatedly lied about the issue of WMDs in Iraq during the run-up to war. They and other Republicans continue to try to deceive the American public on this.

Iraq Occupation is causing more terrorists, not less, and has been a major contribution to the greatly increased instability in the ME, including the rising power of Iran.

Our military, under orders from the Bush Administration, redeployed our elite forces from Afghanistan to Iraq, contributing to OBL's escape at Tora Bora.

Afghanistan has been sorely neglected because our our Iraq misadventure, so the Taliban is on the rise.

Effective measures to make our country less vulnerable have been largely neglected while we waste hundreds of billions on Iraq, much of it squandered through fraud and overbidding, and benefitting only the crooks in Military Industrial Complex and the oil barrons.

Bush and his Administration, with the backing of Republican Congress, has made our country (or at least our government)a pariah throughout most of the world.

Members of the Bush Admin outed a CIA agent for partisan political reasons.

Bush and the Republicans frequently use terrorism fears and alerts (while demonizing Democrats and other opponents) to try to scare the American public to their side, especially during the runup to elections or when Bush has very bad news or poll numbers.

Bush and the Republican controlled Congress are steadily eroding our rights and civil liberties (through illegal wiretapping, illegal detentions, and certain provisions of the "Patriot" Act, etc), and are breaking their oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.

Bush Admin failed to heed the warnings and act quickly and appropriately to the hurricane Katrina.

Bush and the Republican Congress side with big business and lobbyists over small business or hard working Americans every time.

Bush and the Republican Congress are fiscally irresponsible, putting our country in serious financial jeapordy.

There's much more I could write, but it sickens me too much to go on.

Fortunately though, more and more Americans are waking up to recognize this criminal activity for what it is.

Where do you people come up with this garbage that releasing information about capturing one terrorist somehow helps other terrorists? Do you really think they have no clue that our government and other governments are looking for them? And using every means to do so? That NOW they are going to hide because news was released that one of them was captured? People are coming up with these horrible specious arguments to rally others to the conservative cause. The press is not the problem. Poor policy and decision making by the Neo Cons is the problem.

We should reward Pakistan fot the currage to help win this 3rd world war.

I think bin Laden is dead because otherwise Rehman would have contacted him if he had already contacted Al-Zawahiri. Oh by the way I agree that ABC could find Zawahiri faster than the CIA ever could hope to.

The Justice Department was ready to indict Raul Castro for drug trafficking. Bill Clinton stopped it. When Bill Clinton was Gov. of Arkansa, he knew the Airport at Mena was used for Drug trafficking but did nothing. Said it was a Federal problem. But it was not a Federal problem when it came to Raul Castro. Sounds fishy, eh.

There are 2 ways to get bin laden and jawahiri.
1)Apply an intense international pressure on Pakistan to get their military go on a real hunt for them in the lawless regions, but this is very hard since in the same lawless region these 2 islamic terrorists enjoy local support and still there are many in Pakistani military and Pakistani intelligence service who are also supporting these 2 islamic terrorists.
2)US get it's own army in there, which is dangerous for US army since it will lead to an all out war with Islamic terrorists. They are very well trained and they are very well acquainted with the rugged terrain over there which is most suitable for their terrorist activities and gurrilla warfare along with huge local support. US should have done this in the 1st place after they attacked Afghanistan and almost got them in Tora Bora but when US learnt that they slipped away in Pakistan instead of going into Iraq.
Pakistan will say that getting US military in it's lawless territory is political suicide for US and it will hurt US's image in muslim world, blah, blah, blah, but US must say that we want bin laden and jawahiri, period.

Everyone,

terrorism is a REAL problem, both for Republicans and Democrats, but just like we Americans have done in the past and continue to do, we highlight the difference between us instead of the similiarities. We're all Americans, and WE all have to deal with the issue. Oh yeah, this capture is great, but I think we should learn to hold back some.

Entertainment, like Mel and (sorry) JonBenet, don't really affect us as Americans. This does, and therefore should be top priority in the news. Sad that some drunk Austrialian/American gets top bill over a major player in an organization plotting and trying to KILL innocent Americans (like you, your mom, and me) by the thousands. Sad. In other news, thank god we got him and hope he leads to others.

Having just read all posts, I have to say the vast majority here demonstrate a complete lack of commonsense and knowledge of the middle east. Repeating Rush's jingoist rants does not demonstrate anything but stupidity. People who claim Bush has helped with the world's terrorism problem are deluded. Rather like Bush and his mouthpiece today telling us all how swimmingly things are going in Iraq. There were no terrorists in Iraq before Bush threw his party. Saddam's thugs and secret police grabbed um up if they approached his border. He didn't want any competition. Zarqawi was based in northern Iraq where the cia and the Kurds had control. Now the country is ten times the terror training station that Afganistan was before we ran the Taliban out and they're back because the neocons had to get rid of Saddam rather than finish the job in Afganistan. There are more terrorist today by at least a factor of ten then there were when Israel started bombing Lebanon using American jets, rockets and bombs. There will be no end to terror until the Palestinian's and Israeli's learn to live with each other with mutual respect. As long as the US takes the Israeli side rather than being an honest broker more terrorists will be created every day. Brent Scocroft took Shrub to task just the other day for his complete dropping of the ball on those fundamentals.

Ted -
First you say
"There were no terrorists in Iraq before Bush threw his party."

Then you say, in reference to Saddam's desire for "no competition" that
"Zarqawi was based in northern Iraq where the cia and the Kurds had control".

Blatant self-contradiction. Obviously Zarqawi (a terrorist) was in Iraq ("northern" according to you) before "Bush's party".

The "delusion" is yours and yours alone I'm afraid.