The CIA is believed to be holding fewer than three dozen al Qaeda leaders in
prison. The agency holds most, if not all, of the top captured al Qaeda lea
ders, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Abu Zubaida and the
lead Southeast Asia terrorist, Nurjaman Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali.

"Thanks, but no thanks," Joshua said. "The conversation where you try to exp
lain to a highway patrolman why you have 40 pounds of gelatin in your passen
ger seat is one I think we'd both rather avoid."
"And here you thought you were going to have to do a lot of hand holding," I
said.
That stung. Joshua must have picked up on it. "I don't mean to imply that yo
u had done anything wrong, Tom," he said, gently. "Just that there wasn't ti
me. Even if there was, this was a better way. Ralph deserved better than to
die on a vet table with strangers over him."