The exact identity of Osama bin Laden’s courier, who unwittingly led to his boss’s demise, remains to be confirmed, but CNN reports that it was a Kuwaiti known as Abu Ahmad al Kuwaiti. If that’s true, then obviously it wasn’t the courier mentioned in the leaked Gitmo file written for Abu Faraj al Libbi’s case. We’ll have to wait for more details from intelligence officials in the coming days before concluding this is right, but CNN’s reporting makes sense. Here’s why.

Obama administration officials have told the press that the courier was connected to two high-level al Qaeda operatives: Abu Faraj al Libbi and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Yesterday, Michael Isikoff reported that “20^th hijacker” Mohammed al Qahtani began cooperating with U.S. intelligence officials after being put through a series of humiliating interrogations. According to an unnamed U.S. intelligence official cited by Isikoff, Qahtani “started to cooperate and, for a while, provided a wealth of information about al-Qaida, including references to the courier in question.”