Frome the same [link|http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/11/21/alqaeda.capture/index.html|article] linked by Marlowe

This one should make you go "Hmm..."
"Eventually, if these arrests keep going at this rate, they will start getting some of the real top people"...


The next ones are a little bit the of history of the "top Al Qaeda operative"
Born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Tell me again why Iraq is such a danger to us.

Like other top al Qaeda officials, including bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, he was one the "Afghan Arabs" who fought against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, officials said.

(emphasis added)
Another wacko that was trained, supported and abandoned by us?