"Clearly, the man is an imbecile"

[seth gecko]

No, its not another thread about Fuji................


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...wanted-poster/2012/04/17/gIQAbVjqNT_blog.html

Now maybe I've been hitting the the khat a little too much, but the original Washington Post article linked above quotes a US official as saying "clearly the man is an imbecile". That quote seems to have been removed from the article in the link.
But here it is again:

(CBS News) Apparently not understanding how rewards for capturing criminals works, a mid-level Taliban commander walked up to a police checkpoint with a wanted poster bearing his own face seeking the reward listed on it, the Washington Post reports.
Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in Paktika province, demanded of the officers at the scene the $100 finder's fee listed on the poster, the Post reports.
Ashan was arrested on the spot, and is suspected of plotting at least two attacks against Afghan security forces, the Post reports.
"We asked him, 'Is this you?' Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, 'Yes, yes, that's me! Can I get my award now?'" SPC Matthew Baker told the Post.
A biometric scan later confirmed that Ashan was indeed a wanted man.
"Clearly," one U.S. official told the Post, "the man is an imbecile."
Just across the border in Pakistan, a much higher bounty produced a bout of very public mocking by the extremist being sought.
At the beginning of April, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the 61-year-old founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, made fun of the purported $10 million bounty placed on his head by the U.S.
"I am here, I am visible. America should give that reward money to me," he told reporters, mocking Washington for placing a bounty on a man whose whereabouts are no mystery. "I will be in Lahore tomorrow. America can contact me whenever it wants to."
As of the writing of this report, Saeed is still free.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_...-afghan-taliban-man-turns-self-in-for-reward/

I can't understand why the "imbecile" reference could have been deleted from the original article

 

[Aardvark154]

Wow, that is certainly the truth.

 

[The Fruity Hare]

This guy will just have his followers break him out so he can collect the reward over and over. Maybe he's just crazy like a fox!

 

[wigglee]

if he had any brains , he would have had his buddy turn him in, get the cash, then break him out.

 

[OddSox]

Winter is coming and he's tired of living in a cave. By Spring, he'll either bribe his way out or it will be a prisoner exchange...

 

[GG2]

The next 9/11 has been thwarted. Good job guys!

 

[mandrill]

Winter is coming and he's tired of living in a cave. By Spring, he'll either bribe his way out or it will be a prisoner exchange...

Yup. Allah be praised!

 

[rhuarc29]

I love that they inferred the following from this one man's act:

Officials have guessed at what the unusual details of Ashan’s arrest might tell us about the state of the insurgency — its desperation, its lack of resources, its defiance of law and order.

There's obviously some other motive behind it aside from his intellectual capacity (or lack thereof).

 

[neverwas]

Something is more than a little strange here. Could he be planted as a Trojan Horse in a prison?

 

[Mikehorn]

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