“In May [2] 2005, Pakistani and U.S. authorities engineered the capture of Abu Faraj al-Liby, who was, in the words of one top intelligence official, ‘the switchboard,’ the person who was rebuilding the al Qaeda leadership’s ties to cells and other organizations around the world, which had been frayed or cut over the past four years.”
– Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 127