Can this be right? If so, there’s something very fishy going on here.
A man once considered a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him…
Omar al-Farouq was one of Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenants in Southeast Asia until Indonesian authorities captured him in the summer of 2002 and turned him over to the United States.
A Pentagon official in Washington confirmed Tuesday evening that al-Farouq escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 10…
An Army lawyer for Sgt. Alan J. Driver, a reservist accused of abusing Bagram detainees, asked Tuesday where al-Farouq was and what the Army had done to find him in time for Driver’s court proceedings.
Capt. John B. Parker, a prosecutor, said al-Farouq and three others escaped from the Bagram detention center and have not been found. “If we find him … we will make him available,” Parker said.
Look here for more info:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2005/20051102_3223.html
Yeah, he escapes just before he is supposed to testify against a service member for alleged abuse…
He “escaped” all right… more like “slipped the surly bonds of earth”
almost forgot here’s a much better version of the story enjoy.
http://www.spacewar.com/2005/051102213051.jzqg43rf.html
Escaped.….escaped my foot. There’s a whole lot of desert out there