It’s not much of a surprise if it was planned (or rumored) all along, is it?
For quite some time, people have been expecting that there would be some kind of announcement — a terror alert, a capture of some top al Qaeda official — to spoil John Kerry’s convention nomination.
Yawn. Here it is, right on schedule.
Pakistan has arrested a Tanzanian al Qaeda suspect wanted by the United States in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said Friday. He said the suspect was cooperating and had given authorities “very valuable” information.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani — who is on the FBI’s list of 22 most wanted terrorists, with a reward of up to $25 million on his head — was arrested Sunday in the eastern city of Gujrat along with at least 15 other people, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat told The Associated Press.
Please note, with little surprise, that he was arrested Sunday (before the convention) but the news was released today, the day of John Kerry’s nomination speech.
Of course, there’s one thing that I’ve noticed: Osama bin Laden hasn’t materialized yet. Either this means that they’re waiting for just before the election to announce his capture, or they really can’t find him, which is frankly quite pitiful.
