On August 28, 2002, “The Washington Post found that two of the senior Qaeda leaders we hadn’t captured [Saif al-Adel and Mahfouz Ould Walid] were operating at full tilt out of Iran, where they were directly involved in planning terrorist operations, despite the Pentagon’s announcement that one of the pair (Mafouz Ould Walid) had been killed in Afghanistan in January.”
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 60