An anomaly. They usually all become upstanding citizens.

MSM using Eponymous Sources.

I'd say by the looks of it we (the US/CIA) didn't hold this guy long enough. Our bad.

Obviously the emotional scars from his torture were responsible for him lashing out at the world via pyromania.

/cough

Why a psychiatric hold?

The enablers are already coming to his assist by claiming his trauma from imprisionment.

Won't work for us.

The ACLU loves this guy because he sued the CIA. The arson came 1 year to the day after his arson case was dismissed by a US judge.

Nice Catch, Charles!

Well sure. If the man arrested for arson in Germany says he was tortured by the US government, sexually abused no less, then his story must be true.

And his arson in Germany is just the natural extension of his anger and frustration and the US government.

By his account, he was then flown by US agents to Kabul where he was tortured and sexually abused during his five months in captivity.

Sexually abused in Kabul.
Did they make him the goat?
Poor baby.

JWM

He was tortured by his Inner Struggle

I think his claims of torture are all BS. Hopefully they'll keep him locked up this time.

Somewhere in my files I have a copy of the Al Qaeda playbook we captured and it clearly instructs them to claim torture upon arrest

I'll go find it ...

OT - from a post by formercorpsman on the DT today (#314):
"Sorry to post ang go folks.

My wife and I have been in the area children's hospital all night with our little boy.

They are still trying to figure out what is wrong with him.

I am getting ready to head back up there.

If you feel so compelled, a few prayers would always be appreciated.

Thank you guys, I'll catch you later."

This is a case where the CIA actually did the right thing, they captured someone who they thought was a terrorist, interrogated him, held him in Afghanistan until they could make sure that "he wasn't the droid" they were looking for. Then they let him go. Just because he wasn't the exact terrorist they were looking for doesn't mean this guy doesn't have ties to terror.

Attorney for German in CIA kidnapping case concedes client set fire to store

The lawyer for a German man who says he was kidnapped by the CIA conceded Friday his client set fire to a store — but blamed government officials for not helping him more after his release from captivity.
...
"There's nothing to talk about regarding the setting of the fire — he did it," said attorney Manfred Gnjidic.

Gnjidic said the government had not done enough to help el-Masri with the psychological after-effects of his kidnapping and abuse.

"He was left alone," Gnjidic said at a press conference. "You can lean back and wait for the powder keg to explode."
...
El-Masri had argued with employees of the store in the neighboring town of Neu-Ulm about a defective digital music player and been barred from the store.

Infediels ate my Ipod!
/Ulululululu

#14 realwest

Prayers headed their way.

Also notice how his story jives with standard claims of alien abductions -- anal probe and all...

And now for something completely O/T:

Who's Roger Daltrey and Sir Bob Geldorf of Live aid fame blast Al Gore's Live Earth concert.

#14 realwest

Prayers sent and will continue to be so.

I know from first-hand experience the power and comfort of Lizard prayers.

(not that they're any more powerful than anyone else's prayers; it's just so great that the friends we make here support us through our darker hours.)

#14 realwest
That's heart breaking.

#20 goddessoftheclassroom "(not that they're any more powerful than anyone else's prayers; it's just so great that the friends we make here support us through our darker hours.)"
I too know the power of Lizard prayers and best wishes and all I can say to what you said is AMEN!

#21 Killgore Trout - Yes, it is indeed. I figured Charles and y'all wouldn't mind that OT!

#13 BabbaZee
Al Qaeda Manual, Lesson Eighteen
PRISONS AND DETENTION CENTERS

From Salon: Who's afraid of Ron Paul?

But Paul has picked up support in other quarters, and that has some Republicans irritated. He's been Technorati.com's top search term much of this week; he's got more YouTube followers than any other GOP candidate, and he's apparently got savvy enough online supporters that he won the post-debate poll at MSNBC.com and came in second at Fox. The Iraq war hawks at Littlegreenfootballs.com are not amused; they banned Paul from their poll Tuesday night when they saw he was winning, claiming his supporters were "spamming" them.

IIRC, he was never wining. I think he was cut off in 3rd place, 12 hours after the debate when he was racking up 2-3 per minute.

18 Thanos LOL paging George Nouri...I think we've got your next "Coast to Coast AM" guest.

Did the CIA agents have those big gray/green heads and weird hands too?

OT-
Do you feel angry all the time? Do toy pigs, patterns in ice cream, women and anyone who believes differently than you fill you with uncontrollable rage? In this uniquely produced video from SultanKnish.blogspot.com, the solution is clear. Extra strength Prozac for Muslims.

One can occasionally read an article in Der Spiegel that is remarkably well done. The subject matter is treated truthfully and fairly handled, sans PC, is based on facts and is seemingly aware that a lot of readers see straight through a childishly narcissistic socialist bias.

Then on the next page, one can most likely read an exposé on, say, Rumsfeld and torture, which trots out all the major leftist talking points and Euro-babble clichés. By and large, it is these screechingly anti-American and leftist interpretations of the world that we find in this mag, especially in the German edition. My guess is that there are one or two liberal (in the European sense) old-timers, who know what's going on, but are most of the time drowned out.

27 mjazzguitar

lol, and thanks

28 Yank in the EU
So truel David's Medienkritik does a very fine job in analyzing the bias.

All of it: The al Qaeda manual
The al Qaeda manual presented here was made available by the FBI which distributed the manual on their website: [Link: www.fbi.gov...]

Presentation
Introduction

First Lesson -- General Introduction
Second Lesson -- Necessary Qualifications And Characteristics For The Organization’s Member
Third Lesson -- Counterfeit Currency And Forged Documents
Fourth Lesson -- Organization Military Bases "Apartments Places"-Hiding
Fifth Lesson -- Means Of Communication And Transportation
Sixth Lesson -- Training
Seventh Lesson -- Weapons: Measures Related To Buying And Transporting Them
Eight Lesson -- Member Safety
Ninth Lesson -- Security Plan
Eleventh Lesson -- Espionage (1) Information-Gathering Using Open Methods
Twelfth Lesson -- Espionage (2 )Information-Gathering Using Covert Methods
Eighteen Lesson -- Prisons And Detention Centers

He's a pretty popular guy to pick up...for an innocent person /smirk

I love how the press has no problem using the word alleged even when people are caught in the act or have 50 witnesses to it...yet it's never alleged when the word torture and USA are in the same sentence.

taquyyia...isn't that the muslim practice of always being truthful?
/sarc

14 realwest

:( Wish him and his family the best. I hope it isn't anything serious.

Ok, I misspoke wrote. What happened to Lessons 13 thru 17?

These muslim terrorist types are SO misunderstood.

/sarc

#29 St. P

Dave and Ray do work hard, indeed. Could you imagine taking all that time to expose the bias in a generally leftist, anti-American magazine in the US? Sheesh! Then I believe they also have careers going at the same time.

#30 abolitionist
Thanks saved me the trouble

The US catch-and-release program at its finest.

Catch-and-release doesn't work. Warehousing criminals doesn't work. Permanently eliminating them, on the other hand, works permanently. It's a pretty simple concept.

Search of fbi.com was a bust. However, at USBorderPatrol.com found it:

The Al Qaeda Manual, Part 1

Sorry about this OT posting, but the mention of Germany made me think of the story that has been fleetingly in the news since April about heightened fears of a terrorist attack on tourists flying out of Germany and more air marshalls being assigned to planes, etc. ABC was the only outlet carrying this story until a few days ago, when it was alluded to on Fox. The announcer said something about how the alert Does anyone know anything more about this? My husband and I are planning to travel to Berlin at the end of the month, and we're a little nervous.

formercorpsman, got yer back

Sorry. I meant to say that the Fox announcer said concern has been growing in the last week.

OT: what's with the site today, I keep getting blank pages and/or slow response. Methinks Charles is working weekends, trying out some new code?!?!

#27 mjazzguitar

LOL!

40 mizpants I'd feel safer flying to and from Berlin this month than anywhere else. It's not like we have an infinite supply of air marshals, if you know what I mean.

Here's al-Qaeda training manual.pdf containing scans of an actual document. Under windows, you can right click and SaveAs.

The sword thru the earth is an interesting graphic.

CAUTION: When I opened it, my firewall kicked in:
'Adobe Reader 6.0' from your computer wants to connect to 63.241.59.39, port 80

For that IP, a WhoIs service indicates
OrgName: CERFnet
OrgID: CERF
Address: 5738 Pacific Center Blvd
City: San Diego
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 92121
Country: US

I understand there are free apps that can open PDFs without phoning home, or whatever it's doing. Any recommendations?

Correction: Save Link As...

Islamopyromaniaphobia!

For people like Khaled, 5 months of extraordinary rendition is just not enough. More waterboarding, please!

#5 MandyManners

Why a psychiatric hold?

So they can get on with sexually abusing and torturing him, of course!

...the German MSM will use Islamists burning down their country to sell more advertising...

Wonder what is sold in the wholesale market..?

The Mujahideen had their own sequel to this man´s dilettantish attempt to deconstruct capitalism:

A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding 16, officials said. Three Germans were killed and two wounded in the attack in the city of Kunduz, said Gen. Noor Mohammad Omarkhail, the deputy police chief for Kunduz province. ...

In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to continue with reconstruction efforts in the country following the blast — the worst attack against Germans since a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying German peacekeepers in June 2003, killing four soldiers.

That was when the suicide of Jürgen Möllemann was in the news.

Quick, get this poor bastard a Nut House lawyer.