Fuzzy Math

Read this today regarding the US air strikes on Somalia. Aside from the fact that the US is again slaughtering the natives in the Anglo War of Terror disguised as the War on Terror, this remark caught my eye :

"The 32-year-old Fazul joined al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and trained there with Osama bin Laden, according to the transcript of an FBI interrogation of a known associate."

Hmmm… 32 years old. According to government issued facts on bin Laden, Osama went to Afghanistan in the mid 1980s to fight the Russians, chasing the Russians out of Afghanistan by 1989, at which time OBL, according to Infoplease, returned to SaudiArabia and worked in his family's construction business.

Which means Fazul age 32 in the above January 2006 article, would have "trained" with Osama in Afghanistan somewhere between 1985-89, at age …. 10, 11, 12 …? (Or using one of the FBI Most Wanted DOBs, 1972, Fazul could have been in training at the ripe old age of 13, 14, 15.)

Much could be read into that math, i.e. known associates being interrogated will say anything to get the electrodes removed. Or perhaps they meant Fazul joined up with OBL during another stint in Afghanistan, in 1994 when Osama was expelled from Saudi for anti-government activities - but no, wait, in 1994 bin Laden went to Sudan. In the mid 1990s Fazul was in Kenya, getting married to a local woman, and teaching school.

Hmmm maybe Fazul's age will be adjusted to better fit the scenario, maybe not. Maybe the guvmint wants to show Islamic boys could be terrorist members-in-training. And of course we've all seen footage of child soldiers with guns "over there". You just never know which little boy begging for water is your worst enemy.