Rising Terror Chief Worries U.S. Officials

Baitullah Mesud, Accused Bhutto Assassination Mastermind, Emerges As Global Nemesis

(CBS)  Pictures obtained by CBS News from Pakistani sources are among the first public images ever to surface of a man U.S. intelligence officials call "one of the most dangerous people on the planet," CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Bob Orr reports.

He is Pakistani warlord Baitullah Mehsud, the accused mastermind of the Benazir Bhutto assassination. An emerging leader, sources say, who threatens to eclipse Osama bin Laden as the world's top terrorist.

Terrorism analyst Christine Fair says Baitullah Mehsud is running a training camp for suicide bombers in Pakistan's off-limits tribal region -- a magnet for radical Islamic recruits from Europe and potentially the United States.

"He may not be out there cultivating people to send them abroad, but people abroad may seek him out for the operations that they conduct back home or elsewhere," Fair says.

Officials suspect that's precisely what happened in the recent foiled suicide bombing plot targeting transit systems in Spain and four other European countries.

Operatives rounded up in Barcelona have been linked to terror training camps in the same Pakistan region where Mehsud is the supreme commander and where al Qaeda has found safe sanctuary.

Robert Grenier was a top official at the CIA.

"Given the fact that he is able to control territory that is extremely important to al Qaeda, that makes him a very important player," Grenier says.

Unlike al Qaeda leaders bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, who use very public propaganda to assert their power and build fear, Mehsud is a secretive tribal fighter who rarely shows his face outside his inner circle.

But Mehsud's message is just as threatening.

With his identity protected, Mehsud told the Arab network al Jazeera, "We want to eradicate Britain and America ...We pray that Allah will enable us to destroy the White House, New York, and London."

"He's saying the same thing that bin Laden said then years ago," Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said. "And it doesn't mean that the attack's coming tomorrow, but yeah, it's certainly, he's the kind of person and his group is the kind of group that we need to mindful about."

While Mehsud's emergence from the shadows is worrisome, U.S. officials hope there's an upside. As one intelligence analyst put it, if he makes himself more visible, he'll be easier to eliminate.

[liberalme]

Ok, here we go--was just a matter of time.

Now Congress will allow eavesdropping---we should go to level orange any day now.

Put the fear of Allah in those Americans who feed into it.

Perhaps we should invade Pakistan.

More hate for Muslims--vote for McCain--he''ll save you--thats only if Bush is out of office in 09.

My problem is, if this is true---who will protect us? Most of our troops are out killing terrorists.

Have no fear--Bush is here!

[rowdytexan2]

Neocons latest Al Queda recruit! Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[candide777]

[Speaking of terrorists,] did you hear Cheney is in Irag checking up on his investments?
Posted by truth-hurts at 03:16 PM : Mar 17, 2008

Of course, when you have no bid contracts that get paid regardless of whether your projects are complete failures, there''s really not much to check up on, just gotta make sure none of the crooks who work for you are looting the company, selling materials to Al Quaeda or something and not giving you your cut of the booty.

[grazinggoat]

CBSNews: ''Pictures obtained by CBS News from Pakistani sources are among the first public images ever to surface of a man U.S. intelligence officials call "one of the most dangerous people on the planet," CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Bob Orr reports.''

-He looks more like the Yeti living in the neighboring Himalaya Mountains... Another TERRRORRR fright!

-Bob Orr, why don''t you report something on Olmert, the biggest Israeli terrorist who terrorized Lebanese civilians over, on July 2006, killing over 1000 civilians, Kana babies, destroying more than their share of CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE?

[feelfree1]

This CBS article reeks of more poopaganda boogeyman nonsense from some garbage factory like IntelCenter, or the SITE Institute.

Not to be taken for other than comedic consumption.

Re: "Unlike al Qaeda leaders bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, who use very public propaganda to assert their power and build fear..."

Pot to kettle, Bob Orr!...pot to kettle...

I wonder what kind of "attack" we will see if the neo-conservatives/neo-liberals feel cornered.

Remember the nukes that were "accidentally" flown around the U.S. recently, all willie-nillie?

Were there 5? or 6?

[feelfree1]

Hi "grazinggoat",

Re: "Bob Orr, why don''t you report something on Olmert, the biggest Israeli terrorist who terrorized Lebanese civilians over, on July 2006, killing over 1000 civilians, Kana babies, destroying more than their share of CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE?"

A very good question.

[feelfree1]

From the article-

Re: "With his identity protected, Mehsud told the Arab network al Jazeera, "We want to eradicate Britain and America ...We pray that Allah will enable us to destroy the White House, New York, and London."

Why would he "protect" his identity, if it is already known who he is, and what he looks like?


"He''s saying the same thing that bin Laden said then years ago," Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff"

So top U.S. official terrorist, Michael Chertoff, couldn''t even come up with a new script for this nonsense?

[baghdadshere]

"Rising Terror Chief Worries U.S. Officials"

Another idle to make FellFree1 proud of being jihadiot is rising.

Now those left-wing jihadiot who post daily on this site have a new hero.

FellFree1, rowdytexan,floyzepp,liberalme,j-whitman and others, now you have another hero who will make you forget about OBL.

[zootallures2]

What a joke... New actor, same script.. LOL! Or is it an old film from the casting couch?

[liberalme]

Rising Terror Chief Worries U.S. Officials"

Another idle to make FellFree1 proud of being jihadiot is rising.

Now those left-wing jihadiot who post daily on this site have a new hero.

FellFree1, rowdytexan,floyzepp,liberalme,j-whitman and others, now you have another hero who will make you forget about OBL.
Posted by BaghdadsHere


Why shouldn''t we forget about Osama---Bush did years ago!!

Fortunately for America--not all of us believe all Muslims are terrorists, anymore than all germans are nazis or all italians are mafia.

It''s you fear based war mongers that loves having the (now) minority scared to death--just to justify Bushs'' war for oil!

Remember--you can fool some of the people some of the time-------

[zootallures2]

Here''s why they had to get a new villian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zScm2X3S2AM

Just put one foot infront of the other...LOL!

[smirk5]

03/17/08 AP: Bomb kills 32 in Iraqi city of Karbala
A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 51, officials said.

03/17/08 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap 2 off-duty Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit
Gunmen kidnapped two off-duty Iraqi soldiers at a fake checkpoint on Sunday in western Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
03/17/08 Reuters: Roadside bombs wound 4 in seperate incidents in Baghdad
A roadside bomb wounded three people in Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, police said...A separate roadside bomb wounded one person in Mansour district, police said.

[smirk5]

03/17/08 Reuters: Roadsdide bomb kills policeman in western Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded another as they patrolled Mansour district in western Baghdad, police said.
03/17/08 Reuters: Five bodies found in Baghdad on Sunday
Five bodies were found in different districts across Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
03/17/08 AP: Three bodies found in Udaim
police said they found the bodies of three members of a U.S.-allied group fighting al-Qaida in Udaim...Members of the mostly Sunni groups have been increasingly targeted by suspected al-Qaida members seeking to derail the recent security gains.
03/17/08 Xinhua: Three killed in minibus bombing in Baghdad
"A booby-trapped minibus went off after midday near the UqbaBin Nafie Intersection in Karradah neighborhood in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 11 others," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
03/17/08 AP: Roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy injures four civilians in Baghdad
A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy injured four civilians in Baghdad, while a separate bombing in the capital''s Mansour neighborhood injured a policeman. Both were reported by police officials on condition of anonymity because they...

[zootallures2]

From the Winter Warlock to something more adult like Charles Manson... America is moving ahead...ha ha ha !

Still, it''s the neo-cons that act like Manson... but to stupid americans, looks are everything....dah!

[liberalme]

03/17/08 AP: Bomb kills 32 in Iraqi city of Karbala
A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 51, officials said.

03/17/08 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap 2 off-duty Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit
Gunmen kidnapped two off-duty Iraqi soldiers at a fake checkpoint on Sunday in western Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
03/17/08 Reuters: Roadside bombs wound 4 in seperate incidents in Baghdad
A roadside bomb wounded three people in Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, police said...A separate roadside bomb wounded one person in Mansour district, police said.
Posted by Smirk5 at 08:48 PM : Mar 17, 2008

Is this the new guy--the old guy or a bunch of guys? Did they catch them?? Hope so with all the military sacrifices over there.

[smirk5]

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers when it struck their vehicle in a district north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

[liberalme]

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers when it struck their vehicle in a district north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Posted by Smirk5 at 08:58 PM : Mar 17, 2008

More Bush sacrifices.

[downsteamjim]

Islam: the last major religion to practice human sacrifice.

[libsrweak]

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers when it struck their vehicle in a district north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Posted by Smirk5 at 08:58 PM : Mar 17, 2008

More Bush sacrifices.


Posted by liberalme at 09:03 PM : Mar 17, 2008
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you..pumping gas..leeching off the sacrifices of others

[libsrweak]

and just like clockwork..radical liberals coming out of the shadows diverting attention away frm this terrorist with wishy washy made up hollywood style fantasies..

[smirk5]

libsrweak,
"and just like clockwork..radical liberals coming out of the shadows diverting attention away frm this terrorist with wishy washy made up hollywood style fantasies.."

Iraq was a diversion away from the real war on terror.
There was this "hollywood style" fantasy where we''d invade Iraq and we''d be greeted as liberators. In that fantasy, Saddam had WMDs and a nuclear weapons program and secret drones to deliver anthrax on our coastal cities. It was a great story. Oh, and oil would pay for the reconstruction. While the real terrorists that attacked us on 9-11 have regrouped, Bush has had us on a 5-year hollywood style fantasy where we''re "winning" in the war on terror.

[jlmcscanner]

Just Nuke the scum and be done with it, they would be gone...end of story and no more sitting around waiting for something to happen.Wake up people this is a clash of civilizations.US or them.

[downsteamjim]

To Smirk5: Our intelligence agencies are now so politically correct that we haven''t a clue what''s going on. This has been the case for quite a while. Remeber when we found out about Pakistan''s nuclear weapons by watching CNN.

[downsteamjim]

Good point Sincityq. Remeber CBS wants good seats for the Olympics.

[smirk5]

Our intelligence can do pretty much whatever it wants. It can spy without warrants and has. It can torture and has. Unfortunately, we have some very stupid people running the executive branch right now.

[smirk5]

Sorry, my last comment was directed at: downsteamjim

[x123123]

Hey want to hear something cool that pertains to this article? A Radical terrorist or radical Muslim or a radical Russian etc. etc. can come over here to America become citizens and then go back to where they came from and groom their children in their ways. Then bring them back over to America and have their children run for office, remember now they are American citizens, and become President. What you say this could not happen? Well one prime example of someone living for a long time outside of our country with values from that country teaching him is Obama! He will tell you the same. This is no hidden secret! And he decided to continue his education in a church that its loyalty is to Africa. What you say this cannot be true. Yes the pastor of Obama church said %u201CWhite America was the reason for 911(that the people deserved do die) that they are racist along with Israel that God would D-A-M-N WHITE America%u201D. It seems Obama%u2019s statement on this is he is never present on any day that his pastor speaks in racial undertone? Obama claims he knew nothing of what was transpiring there in his cell church life!

[x123123]

Talk about secret cells!

[liberalme]

you..pumping gas..leeching off the sacrifices of others
Posted by libsrweak at 09:30 PM : Mar 17, 2008


Does that mean you don''t work or have a car?

[Latrocinor]

Good job CBS. We don''t need no CIA.

[merlgrey]

new terror chief worries officials... heh, thats nothing but good for business for the purveyors of fear. now that a new boogieman has been introduced, maybe they will admit that obl is dead.

[tucano2]

It seems the ones captured are always described as !!!#2!!!. Where is #1, and why is it #1 hasn''t been captured???

[candide777]

Obama pledges allegiance to two flags. The flag of an African one is his highest!
Posted by x123123 at 10:04 PM : Mar 17, 2008

Tracy Morgan, is that you? What''s up girl friend? Did the KKK meeting let out early this evening?

[feelfree1]

Re: "Did the deaths of 3000 people at the world trade towers satisfy Obama and his church for their justice?"

I doubt it, but we know that Mr. Cheney, the "dancing Israeli" spies, and various Israeli leaders were pretty happy about it.

I think that is why Mr. Orr, CBS, and the rest of our complicit Western media are hyping up this new alleged boogyman- too get us primed for part two, so that the plutocrats can retain power and control.

[beehive21-2009]

look at the post here ? We got some idiots who can type but cannot think .the religious will what to hang you.

[grazinggoat]

and just like clockwork..radical liberals coming out of the shadows diverting attention away frm this terrorist with wishy washy made up hollywood style fantasies..
Posted by libsrweak at 09:33 PM : Mar 17, 2008

-libsrweak and RepukonsRfreak. You are an fricking idiot! Santa Claus exists in your dumb thick mind... sleep well DumbIdiottoOfStupidoLand. Have you fright-jumped when you saw the new Yeti? Scaring huh?

[grazinggoat]

Did the deaths of 3000 people at the world trade towers satisfy Obama and his church for their justice? Do they have any other plans on their agenda for white America to get what they diserve?

GOD D-A-M-N WHITE AMERICA
Posted by x123123 at 10:20 PM : Mar 17, 2008

-x123123123123 said on conditions of anonamity. LOL!

[libsrweak]

and just like clockwork..radical liberals coming out of the shadows diverting attention away frm this terrorist with wishy washy made up hollywood style fantasies..
Posted by libsrweak at 09:33 PM : Mar 17, 2008

-libsrweak and RepukonsRfreak. You are an fricking idiot! Santa Claus exists in your dumb thick mind... sleep well DumbIdiottoOfStupidoLand. Have you fright-jumped when you saw the new Yeti? Scaring huh?

Posted by grazinggoat at 12:21 AM : Mar 18, 2008
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[libsrweak]

and just like clockwork..radical liberals coming out of the shadows diverting attention away frm this terrorist with wishy washy made up hollywood style fantasies..
Posted by libsrweak at 09:33 PM : Mar 17, 2008

-libsrweak and RepukonsRfreak. You are an fricking idiot! Santa Claus exists in your dumb thick mind... sleep well DumbIdiottoOfStupidoLand. Have you fright-jumped when you saw the new Yeti? Scaring huh?

Posted by grazinggoat at 12:21 AM : Mar 18, 2008
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am i right or am i right?? diversions..diversions..

profanity and idiocy seems to ooze out of these pro-terrorist anti-american liberal *slash* terrorist bit ch masses when they squirm with a little pinch of salty truth..

[feelfree1]

From the article-

"He is Pakistani warlord Baitullah Mehsud, the accused mastermind of the Benazir Bhutto assassination."

It looks pretty likely to most reasonable folks, that our little nuclear-armed, military dictator buddy, Musharraf, was the "mastermind" behind this murder, so this article looks pretty silly from the get go.

I don''t think that as many folks will be willing to buy this latest ooga-booga creation, this time around.

[taylor2124]

These scum Jiahdists need to be:
(1) bombed until nothing but scraps are left
(2) captured and waterboarded until they squeal like hogs
(3)both

[feelfree1]

psy_war,

That was not a very nice comment to "grazinggoat".

[feelfree1]

psy_war,

The only lunatics that I am worried about at the moment, are the pro-Israeli extremists and the neo-nuts, that have seized control of our country, and are driving it into the sun.

All other current threats pale in comparison, in my opinion, and this article is just another layer of ********* on the pile.

[feelfree1]

I saw that dude kickin it with Adam Pearlman at a reggae show last Summer.

They were really off the hook.

[mcvet]

He is Pakistani warlord Baitullah Mehsud, the accused mastermind of the Benazir Bhutto assassination. An emerging leader, sources say, who threatens to eclipse Osama bin Laden as the world''s top terrorist.

It is becoming more clear by the day that Obama and Clinton are right here. We need to be where these people are, where they live. Fighting a proxy war in some other country is NOT going to capture and bring to justice people like this. Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

We have George Bush, John McCain and the rest of the leadership of the Republican Party telling us we are making progress against Al Queda and the Terrorist in the world but people like this guy just continue to assure us that they are, yet again, lying to us. We need new leadership and a new direction here because anyone who says we are winning this thing should just look around the world right now. If the fight against Terror is a fight for the hearts and minds of people, we aren''t just losing folks we are getting the living Helll beat out of us!

[skyk-2009]

We have George Bush, John McCain and the rest of the leadership of the Republican Party telling us we are making progress against Al Queda and the Terrorist in the world but people like this guy just continue to assure us that they are, yet again, lying to us. We need new leadership and a new direction here because anyone who says we are winning this thing should just look around the world right now. If the fight against Terror is a fight for the hearts and minds of people, we aren''''t just losing folks we are getting the living Helll beat out of us!


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Posted by MCVet at 06:02 AM : Mar 18, 2008
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You are so right Sarge. Right now Terrorist Leaders are developing networks in Europe and around the world. They are using the vast hatred for Bush as a weapon against us, they are using the invasion and occupation of Iraq to scare people into helping them. From all indications and from the size and scope of the World Wide protest against us, they have very good grounds to develope such networks. Very good Ground indeed.

[juwboy]

FeelFreek1:

Of course you''re only worried about pro-Israeli extremists.

Why wouldn''t you be when you''re a Moslem Arab who''s paid to pose as a patriotic American on this Comment board by a well-known terrorist organisation?

[crater7]

THERE BAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

GUESS WHAT? IT''S ANOTHER ELECTION, AND THE SCARE-YOU-BOY''S, ARE UP TO IT''S USUAL TRICKS. CARL ROVE HAS COME OUT OF RETIREMENT. THE HOMELAND IN-SECUTITY WILL RAISE THE TERROR ALLERT TO LIME GREEN AS SOON AS THEY SOBER UP FROM THEIR MEETING LAST NIGHT. THE NEXT ATTACK WILL COME IN THE FORM OF A MUSHROOM CLOUD. A VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT IS A VOTE FOR AN ATTACK ON THE HOMELAND.

BOO !!! GOT YA.............

[skyk-2009]

Terrorism analyst Christine Fair says Baitullah Mehsud is running a training camp for suicide bombers in Pakistan''s off-limits tribal region -- a magnet for radical Islamic recruits from Europe and potentially the United States.


Now would someone PLEASE explain what we''re doing in Iraq? IF we are concerned about the safety of this nation it would appear to me that we would be listening to what Obama and Hillary are saying. THEY, if you believe this expert, are dead on the money. This is where the Threat is NOT Iraq!!