Casting Call

Your Right Hand Thief alerted me first to this "breaking" news, and I also saw this post from Swopa at Needlenose.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan has arrested a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said Friday. He said the suspect was cooperating and had given authorities ``very valuable'' information.

Link.

Both Oyster and Swopa point out that Team Bush has been begging Pakistan to do something like this for a while now--even going so far as to request action THIS WEEK. Now, Musharraf (Busharraf) is too smart to ask the obvious question, but does anyone NOT think this is an attempt to steal a little bit of thunder from the Democrats during their convention?

Unfortunately, they guy they got seems to be more at the fame level of Charles Nelson Reilly than, say, Osama bin Laden. But beggars can't be choosers.

And, how much aid do you think Pakistan WOULD qualify for if, by some miracle, they managed to nab bin Laden say, just in time for Bush's acceptance speech next month? I'd guess it would make Halliburton's recent book-cooking look like chump change...