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As I read through all of the stories linked, I kept thinking back to tactics that the Russians used for 50 years in fighting their own terrorists in the pre-Revolution days. The Russian police were masters at turning members of terrorist cells into informants through a variety of means, including torture, deportation and threats on loved ones. There's anecdotal evidence that they even recruited a young Stalin at one point. Is it so far fetched that the same tactic is being used here? By letting al-Faruq back into the world and regularly checking in with him, it might be possible to listen in to the Al-Qaieda network better than we already are. Let him run some minor plots under supervision and get as much information about what else is going on.
Personally, if I were in charge of Al-Qaeida security, I would have put a bullet in Al-Faruq's head as soon as possible. He's of no use immediately and by all accounts he broke under torture.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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