Operation Holy Tuesday

November 14, 2003 7:00 PM

Why use an ax when you can use a bulldozer? Der Spiegel article, summarizing what we have learned about the inception and planning of the 9/11 attack from interrogating captured planners.
posted by crunchburger (14 comments total)

Most of all, they demonstrate that the world's second-most-wanted man (after Saddam Hussein), prince of terror Osama Bin Laden

Hmm.
posted by angry modem at 7:18 PM on November 14, 2003

The powerfully built, portly sheik has repeatedly surprised his interrogators in recent months with such insider views of the Al Qaeda network...Ever since American interrogation specialists began taking him to task, he has been talking profusely.

Hmm.
posted by rushmc at 7:49 PM on November 14, 2003

And now that his right-hand man, Ramzi Binalshibh, who has been in custody since September 2002, has delivered a life confession of sorts, the documented confessions can be used to precisely reconstruct the genesis of the most spectacular act of terrorism in history

Hmm.
posted by Keyser Soze at 8:24 PM on November 14, 2003

I don't know why, but I'm laughing. You people are such goofs.
posted by five fresh fish at 8:48 PM on November 14, 2003

"Nevertheless, each interrogation report on Sheik Mohammed and Binalshibh begins with the disclaimer that one cannot be sure where the real information ends and where the lies begin."

Hmph!
posted by ZachsMind at 9:16 PM on November 14, 2003

Yussuf, a bearded, brooding, introverted man with enormous ears

A-ha!
posted by msacheson at 10:58 PM on November 14, 2003

The article was previously linked in this thread. The surprise is how they finally got Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to start talking.
posted by euphorb at 11:16 PM on November 14, 2003

I don't know why, but I'm laughing. You people are such goofs.

hmm.
posted by quonsar at 5:14 AM on November 15, 2003

What thread, euphorb? You linked to the article.

In any event, I missed the link in whatever thread it was, and I'm very glad to have read it. Thanks, crunchburger.
posted by languagehat at 7:39 AM on November 15, 2003

cool, so time to use the bulldozer on the backward apes in pakistan that are still protecting osama
posted by reality at 8:48 AM on November 15, 2003

The Daisy-cutter (and soon-to-be-developed sub-nuclear warheads) serves as our bulldozer in the Pakistan/Afganistan region.
posted by Busithoth at 9:59 AM on November 15, 2003

Oops, that would be this thread.
posted by euphorb at 10:12 AM on November 15, 2003

This is what I call good newsfilter.
posted by furiousthought at 10:42 AM on November 15, 2003

Newsfilter you can Usefilter
posted by crunchburger at 6:22 PM on November 15, 2003