Monday, October 16, 2006

Al Qaeda leader in secret CIA jail / Stuff NZ, 16 Oct 2006

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3829823a12,00.html
"A suspected al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret US jail for the past year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported. Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told El Pais. A spokesman for the US embassy in Spain declined to comment on the report. "