Al-Libbi No Talkie

According to President Pervez Musharraf, Abu Farraj al-Libbi is tight-lipped about the whereabouts of his terrorist buddies.

CANBERRA, Australia — An alleged Al Qaeda (search) kingpin has not provided information to Pakistani interrogators that could lead them to Usama bin Laden, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search) said Tuesday.

Abu Farraj al-Libbi (search), Al Qaeda's alleged No. 3 man who is accused of masterminding two assassination attempts against Musharraf, was captured after a shootout with Pakistani agents in the country's northwest on May 2. He was later transferred to U.S. custody.

"No he didn't give any information, and he still hasn't" about bin Laden's whereabouts, Musharraf said of al-Libbi in an interview with The Associated Press.

"But he did divulge a lot of information which led to the arrest and apprehension of, I think, 14 other individuals," he said.

It's possible that al-Libbi doesn't know where bin Laden is in the first place. I think it's a fairly standard tactic among these terrorists to communicate primarily through trusted couriers, and to stay on the move. That way, if one gets captured, the others can't be tracked down.

Of course, if those aforementioned folks from Amnesty International had thing their way, al-Libbi would be sitting pretty in a Phuket, Thailand resort, sipping Mai-Tais and screaming at the top of his lungs about how everyone else on the beach were infidels.

It's a good thing they're not in charge.