From Time Magazine’s Euro edition from October 13...
The last of the al-Qaeda operatives from Georgia’s Pankisi Valley still being sought by the U.S. was arrested in the Azeri capital of Baku in a secret operation in September, security officials in the Caucasus told TIME.
Unless they’ve already caught Abu Khabab and Abu Walid, I wouldn’t say that he’s the last. Abu Iyad likewise remains unaccounted for, though JUS said he was running the mujahideen in Iraq so perhaps he was killed during the fighting ...
Abu Ayat was an alleged explosives specialist who claimed to be close to Osama bin Laden and had been on the run for over a year. He was handed over to the U.S., local officials say, and has probably been transferred to Guantánamo Bay.
He’s a pretty obscure fellow, but he did merit a mention in Collin Powell’s UN presentation that lists him as a minion of Zarqawi’s named Abu Atiya. |