Al Qaeda leader Osama bin LadenFrom Newsweek:
U.S. intelligence officials appear to have obtained access to what could turn out to be a significant trove of phone numbers, photographs and documents detailing the links between Al Qaeda's leaders in northwest Pakistan and the terror group's increasingly menacing affiliate in Yemen, two counter-terrorism sources tell Declassified.
In late January, an Al Qaeda operative headed from Pakistan on his way to Yemen was arrested in the Persian Gulf country of Oman, a U.S. counter-terrorism official confirmed.
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My Comment: Newsweek does not mention it .... or it does not know .... but there is no mention on who it was that fingered this courier as an Al Qaeda operative (which is actually a good thing).
But from my vantage point it appears that Saudi and other intelligence services in the Middle East are now getting better at targeting and stopping these individuals .... and fortunately for the U.S. and our allies, we are now reaping the rewards from this success.
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