Quite a catch:

“The United States has taken into custody a top al-Qaeda operative who plotted to assassinate Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and other officials, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.

Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, who was taken to the US navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba about a week ago, was intercepted while trying to reach Iraq to take over Al-Qaeda operations and to plot attacks from there against western targets outside Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.”

Al-Iraqi was number 29 on Iraq’s most wanted list and a definite asset catch, for as much as he was a key player in AQ ops in Iraq and Pakistan, his other AO was Europe.

Crossposted at HeadingRight