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CIA: We Got Bin Laden Translator

The CIA revealed today it had captured Osama bin Laden's translator and secretly held him for at least six months until this week when he was turned over to the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Muhammad Rahim was described as "a tough, seasoned jihadist" who "sought chemicals for one attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan," according to a statement from CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden.

Hayden said Rahim was "best known in counter-terror circles as a personal facilitator and translator" for bin Laden.

Defense officials have claimed off-the-record that Rahim was captured by a joint US-Pakistani intelligence operation in Pakistan. This was most likely the arrest of two "high value" al Qaeda members by Pakistan in Lahore announced in the summer of 2007. In addition to serving as bin Laden's personal translator, Rahim also headed the Tora Bora advance team in anticipation of the US 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

 

[WildCat]

This was most likely the arrest of two "high value" al Qaeda members by Pakistan in Lahore announced in the summer of 2007.

I'd say so, since he was named back then.