Twenty detainees recognize that photo of Abu Ahmed. They say he's part of the inner circle of guys who were hanging out in Afghanistan pre-9/11. A lot of them say that after 9/11, he went to work for KSM. When KSM got captured, he went to work for Abu Faraj, primarily as a courier from Faraj to bin Laden.
Well, that's good. You still don't...
Yeah, we don't know if Abu is on the outside of the network — part of a series of cutouts and dead drops — or if he has a direct connection to bin Laden. Does bin Laden invite him into the living room and hand him a letter directly? Or is Abu just the last guy in a long line of couriers, so that's why everybody knows him?
That's not all you don't know. You don't have his true name, and you don't have a clue where he is.
We know that he's important. The fact that everybody's heard of Abu Ahmed but nobody will tell me where he is suggests that.
Maybe. Detainees could withhold his location for any number of reasons. Perhaps they don't know; perhaps this Abu is just a cover story and he's really a **** unicorn. The withholding doesn't reveal what you want it to, does it?
No.
And if you did find him, you don't know that he'd be with bin Laden.
We don't know what we don't know.
What the **** is that supposed to mean?
It's a tautology.
