Reuters and a Spanish newspaper have claimed that the US has another 9/11 conspirator in custody. Mustafa Setmarian allegedly trained the 9/11 attackers in Afghanistan and helped plot the Madrid bombings, and El Pais reported yesterday that he has been transferred to US custody:

A suspected Al Qaeda leader accused of being involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the last year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported Sunday.

Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told the newspaper. ...

The capture of Setmarian, the alleged founder of Al Qaeda's Spanish network, was reported in May of this year.

The Spaniards would like to get their hands on Setmarian, and the release of the information about Setmarian's detention might be a government ploy to force the US to give him up. American interrogators undoubtedly want to continue their work with Setmarian, as his long association with al-Qaeda should provide a cascade of information on current plots, terror cells, and the location of higher-value terrorists. The US needs to stay firm and continue its exploitation of Setmarian, and then try him for his part in the vicious mass murder ot 2,996 people in the United States.

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