“United States interrogators who specialize in so-called high value targets will question a suspected al Qaeda operative aboard an American warship without reading him his rights, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday. The suspect, Abu Anas al-Libi, was whisked off the streets of the Libyan capital of Tripoli over the weekend. He will be taken to the United States to stand trial in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the officials said. The interrogation will be conducted by a team including representatives of the CIA, the FBI and the military aboard the USS San Antonio, an amphibious helicopter carrier in the Mediterranean Sea…………..”

Having this guy floating over the Mediterranean means there will be no need for water-boarding (provided they still do it the Cheney way). Not technically, if you get my drift.

Al-Qaeda terrorists have a habit of giving each of their operatives and top officials a nom de guerre. al-Libi is from Libya, al-Masri is from Egypt, al-Golani is (allegedly, but I doubt it) from the Golan, al-‘Afflangi is from ‘Afflang on the Persian Gulf), Abu Shlomo al-Israeli is from Tel Aviv, etc.
Oddly, I have never seen anybody with a nom de guerre ending in a-Saudi or al-Qatari, which is unusual given that many are. Come to think of it, I never see any nom de guerre that ends with al-Irani or al-Shee’i either.
Cheers
mhg