June 22, 2003
A captured ... spy.
This is insane and barely believable. Via The Agonist, the Telegraph tells us that the "al-Qa'eda man they captured was an FBI spy." First they tell us that this guy had planned to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. Tonight, though, we find out that he has been under the thumb of the FBI for months.
US authorities waited until last week to announce a plea bargain struck with Iyman Faris, a Pakistani-born lorry driver ordered to scout out terror targets, including the New York landmark.
They did not say that Faris, who was also ordered to study ultralight aircraft, and the possibility of derailing a train into a chemical storage facility in Washington, had been under FBI control for months.
Now, it's not quite as bad as it sounds, since it appears that he was "secretly detained" (let's just call it "arrested," okay?) two weeks after Al Qaeda's chief of operations was captured in Pakistan, on March 1. Since then, he has apparently been "sitting in a safe house making calls for us" to his superiors in Al Qaeda. Still it would have been nice if they had actually told us the whole truth about him in the first place. A lie of omission is still a lie.
It's about time for us to hear truth rather than lies, isn't it?