That other al Libbi

Oops. That capture of the "Number Three" man in al Qaeda wasn't quite what it was cracked up to be. From the Christian Science Monitor:

"Pakistani officials triumphantly announced last Wednesday that the man they nabbed was Libyan national Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who they said ranks third in Al Qaeda's current hierarchy. His arrest was described in the US as "a major breakthrough" in the hunt for bin Laden.

The Sunday Times of London cites European intelligence experts as saying that Libbi "was not the terrorists' third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as 'among the flotsam and jetsam' of the organisation."