Omar al-Farouq, "top al-Qaeda operative", escapes
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:47 pm
QUOTEThe star witness in the trial of US troops for prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan has mysteriously disappeared. Omar al-Farouq would have been the first detainee to testify against an American soldier.
The US regime previously claimed that Omar al-Farouq was a \"top al-Qaeda operative\" and \"one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants\", but now they claim that he was somehow able to escape. The only evidence of his escape is an anonymous \"leak\" to the mass media, as usual from an \"unnamed\" US official.
Three other witnesses are said to have \"escaped\" at the same time, so the only four people ever to succeed in an \"escape\" from a Guantanamo-bay-style maximum secitity US military prison all happen to be witnesses who wanted to testify against the US military.
There is sufficient anecdotal evidence here to justify asking the question: is the US military willing to eliminate people who threaten their position in occupied countries? Yet there is no hint of this obvious question in the western media. As previous examples demonstrate, the mass media would not be so restrained if the same incident happened in an enemy state.
Sources:
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1660
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01423.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/ ... I300.shtml
The US regime previously claimed that Omar al-Farouq was a \"top al-Qaeda operative\" and \"one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants\", but now they claim that he was somehow able to escape. The only evidence of his escape is an anonymous \"leak\" to the mass media, as usual from an \"unnamed\" US official.
Three other witnesses are said to have \"escaped\" at the same time, so the only four people ever to succeed in an \"escape\" from a Guantanamo-bay-style maximum secitity US military prison all happen to be witnesses who wanted to testify against the US military.
There is sufficient anecdotal evidence here to justify asking the question: is the US military willing to eliminate people who threaten their position in occupied countries? Yet there is no hint of this obvious question in the western media. As previous examples demonstrate, the mass media would not be so restrained if the same incident happened in an enemy state.
Sources:
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1660
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01423.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/ ... I300.shtml