What the Arrest of KSM Means for the War on Terror

(National Review) - Mansoor Ijaz On the hard drive of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's computer, Pakistani police officials found a goldmine of information - names of other senior al Qaeda operatives, e-mails, telephone numbers, wire-transfer information (KSM is also chief financial officer for all al Qaeda operations around the world), travel itineraries, future terror scenarios. As Husain Haqqani at the Carnegie Endowment has articulated, KSM is not chief executive officer of a corporation called al Qaeda. He is a franchise owner who knows all the other franchisees.


2003-03-06 00:00:00

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