How to get a promotion in al-Qaeda...........

......Get Caught.

Until he was captured by Pakistan Abu Faraj al-Libbi was rarely mentioned.

He apparently did not occupy any high place in the al-Qaeda hierarchy, as would be evident from the facts that he was not one of the top guns of al-Qaeda for whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation had issued look-out notices after September 11, and that his name did not figure prominently in the report of the US's 9-11 Commission, which had at its disposal details of the interrogation of all the al-Qaeda operatives arrested in Pakistan, including that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist strikes in the US, who was arrested at Rawalpindi in March, 2003.

Nor did his name figure prominently in reports regarding the investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the journalist of the Wall Street Journal, and other terrorist attacks directed against French and American nationals in Karachi and Islamabad by suspected pro-al-Qaeda jihadi elements in 2002, and the attempt to kill the then Corps Commander of Karachi in June 2004.

But after his capture he went from being Osama bin Laden's valet and bodyguard to the "number three" man. More smoke and mirrors from Pakistan and the Bush administration to make us think they are making progress in the war on terror so they can continue their own war of terror against their own citizens.