The instapundit seems to think the FBI still has some.
I think he may have forgotten about this and this, among other things.
I’m reminded of a post-9/11 visit we had from a member of the Berkeley Bomb Squad, who was showing us how to recognize dangerous packages in the mail. He showed us a lumpy envelope with wires sticking out of a corner. “This,” he explained, “Is what we call an ‘FBI clue'”.
If this is real it’s good news.
Sharif, a surgeon who is still known by his underground name of “Dr Fadl”, is famous as the author of the Salafi jihadists’ “bible” – Foundations of Preparation for Holy War. He worked with Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian doctor and now Bin Laden’s deputy, before being kidnapped in Yemen after 9/11, interrogated by the CIA and extradited to Egypt where has been serving a life sentence since 2004.
Sharif recently gave an electrifying foretaste of his conversion by condemning killings on the basis of nationality and colour of skin and the targeting of women and children, citing the Qur’anic injunction: “Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress the limits; for God loveth not transgressors.” Armed operations were wrong, counterproductive and must cease, he declared sternly.
