Hunting Terrorists

Terror found bin Laden's brother-in-law. And, hopefully, we had a hand in it, and maybe some intelligence out of it. Great resources from Bill Roggio.

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Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, one of Osama bin Laden's brother-in-laws with deep roots in al-Qaeda as a financier and facilitator, has been reported to have been murdered in his bedroom in Madagascar.

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Task Force 145 [US Military] has a mandate to hunt down senior al-Qaeda operatives world wide, and is known to have operated in Pakistan to destroy Osama bin Laden's Black Guard. Also, the U.S. recently deployed naval assets to the region, as well as Task Force 145, in the hunt for al-Qaeda and Islamic Courts leaders fleeing Somalia.

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Khalifa also funded the Islamic Army of Aden, which was responsible for the suicide boat attack on the USS Cole which killed 17 US sailors.

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Khalifa also participating in the planning and financing of ... slamming airplaines into the "CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, an unidentified nuclear power plant, the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco, the Sears Tower, and the World Trade Center." This plot was foiled in 1995.

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Khalifa was arrested in the United States in Decmeber of 1994...

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Mohammed Jamal Khalifa is perhaps the poster-child for failure in exclusively relying on the law-enforcement model for counterterrorism operations.
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And as Instapundit notes:

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... I doubt Khalifa would have produced much useful intelligence in the absence of now-banned interrogation techniques. ... Of course, such a ban does tend to make people like Khalifa worth more dead than alive, but I can live with that consequence...