KQED Charlie Rose April 24, 2015
Terrorists was not possible. Rose those hundreds of hours never detected any sign of the hostages. But intelligence analysts did see evidence of a senior al qaeda op rattive. Exactly who they did not know. That seemed to make it even more unlikely hostages were in the compound since there were no previous cases in which hostages had been held close to al qaeda leaders. It now appears the hostages were kept nearby as shields for the senior leader. Who turned out to be an american named ahmed foruoq who once hamped a plan to hijack pakistani vessels and ram them into warner warships, five days l...