Further Doubts re Khalid arrest
Despite the doubts and even incredulity of respected Middle East correspondents like Robert Fisk and Al Jazeera's London correspondent, it seems that Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in in fact in custody (somewhere) but the murky details of this case merit serious investigative journalism, just as the case of Daniel Pearl does. Another way of putting it is that nuclear armed Pakistan is one of the most dangerous and unstable countries in the world right now. If any element of these reports is true it makes a nonsense of the corporate media reporting of the issue but no-one is reading or paying any attention to corporate media anyway, right? We all know that it is a propaganda outlet, that we would read only in the same way we would read Soviet Pravda or listen to a Goebbels radio address.

'The sister of a Pakistani arrested in a swoop that authorities say also netted the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks has said he was the only man present at the time of the raid and had no ties to any extremist group. Some analysts questioned whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually been arrested on Saturday and speculated he may have been held for some time. "I think he was arrested several months ago in the shootout in Karachi," one expert on Pakistan who declined to be identified said, referring to a gunbattle in September in the southern port city that netted another Al Qaeda figure, Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, known as Binalshibh... Another terror expert said several weeks ago he believed Mohammed had been arrested and that he expected the news would be only be made public when it was in the interests of the United States and Pakistan.'

Further Doubts re Khalid arrest
Despite the doubts and even incredulity of respected Middle East correspondents like Robert Fisk and Al Jazeera's London correspondent, it seems that Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in in fact in custody (somewhere) but the murky details of this case merit serious investigative journalism, just as the case of Daniel Pearl does. Another way of putting it is that nuclear armed Pakistan is one of the most dangerous and unstable countries in the world right now. If any element of these reports is true it makes a nonsense of the corporate media reporting of the issue but no-one is reading or paying any attention to corporate media anyway, right? We all know that it is a propaganda outlet, that we would read only in the same way we would read Soviet Pravda or listen to a Goebbels radio address.

'The sister of a Pakistani arrested in a swoop that authorities say also netted the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks has said he was the only man present at the time of the raid and had no ties to any extremist group. Some analysts questioned whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually been arrested on Saturday and speculated he may have been held for some time. "I think he was arrested several months ago in the shootout in Karachi," one expert on Pakistan who declined to be identified said, referring to a gunbattle in September in the southern port city that netted another Al Qaeda figure, Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, known as Binalshibh... Another terror expert said several weeks ago he believed Mohammed had been arrested and that he expected the news would be only be made public when it was in the interests of the United States and Pakistan.'