On the day that some around here are calling "the second day of Fitzmas" you had to expect Dubya's administration to pull some kind of distraction out of their bag of tricks to distract people from how incompetent they really are...
So here's today's distraction courtesy of MSNBC:
Key al-Qaida figure reportedly captured
Suspect is a leader of European terror network, officials tell NBC News.
In September 2003, Nasar was among 35 people named in an indictment handed down by a Spanish magistrate for terrorist activities connected to al-Qaida.
Nasar's name also has been linked to the July 7 terror bombings in London, but the Metropolitan Police and Home Office were unable to offer immediate comment on British interest in Nasar in connection with the July 7 attack, which killed 56 people including four bombers.
Just to make my point that this news is just now coming out, obvously to keep the arraignment of Scooter Libby off the front pages I'll only post the end of the story. You can find the rest at the link I posted above.
In addition to confirming Nasar's identity, the U.S. counterterrorism officials, as well as Pakistani government officials, told NBC News that that report on the timing of the arrest was inaccurate. They said Nasar was arrested prior to Monday in Quetta, in a raid was the result of intelligence information that pointed to an al-Qaida safe house there.