I heard on Fox and CNN that interrogators got the good intel on an OBL courier from a detainee four or five years back once we got our intel community up to speed again, and since then they have all been working trying to tie all those bits of information from other detainees together about who that courier was and what he was up to now. Once they had some idea of the courier, the chase began as to where he and the other courier mentioned were and if they were still affiliated with OBL. Once they finally found them, they began tracing who owned their large property, who else lived there and then, what would be the best way to get that other person. What a tedious and mind-numbing amount of work had to have gone into finishing this puzzle piece by piece. Sounds like it all may have started with just that one little piece of information - a courier's nickname - years back. It will be interesting to see if that really is how the monster was found - a detainee who talked.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |