That's why our "war" on a tactic is a jjoke.
Posted on 05/26/2004 9:47:55 AM PDT by Shermy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is warning police that terrorists could construct a simple but deadly chemical weapon out of materials readily available. "Little or no training is required to assemble and deploy such a device due to its simplicity," the FBI said Wednesday in its weekly intelligence bulletin to about 18,000 law enforcement agencies.
The bulletin provides no details of a specific threat or possible location of an attack. It does say that terrorists could take advantage of building ventilation systems, air intakes or enclosed areas to disperse toxic chemical gas.
Law enforcement officials previously have warned that al-Qaida or other terrorist groups might target subways and targets such as hotels and office buildings rather than heavily guarded government installations.
In addition, material collected in Pakistan after the March 1 capture in that country of senior al-Qaida planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed provided further proof that operatives experimented with various forms of chemical, radiological and biological weapons, law enforcement officials say.
The FBI bulletin says hydrogen cyanide or chorine gas could be produced by combining liquid and solid materials, possibly using a canister such as a paint can with holes pierced into it. The materials could be combined using either a blasting cap or some kind of delayed switch.
"When combined, this creates the toxic gas that would emerge through the holes," the bulletin says.
Such a device would be most effective in an enclosed space, the bulletin adds, because it would be dispersed too quickly in larger areas or out in the open to kill or injure many people. But police, firefighters and medical personnel could be imperiled when responding to an attack because "the device may reactivate when it is disturbed."
In January, the FBI told police to beware of possible attacks using ricin, a toxic substance derived from the castor bean plant. That warning followed the arrests last year in Britain of 11 North African men on terrorism charges stemming from an alleged attempt to develop a ricin weapon.
The bulletin came as the FBI continues to interview Iraqis living in the United States at the rate of about 1,000 a day, with a goal of reaching 11,000 by the end of this week.
The interviews, focused on those who have recently traveled to Iraq or have ties to the Iraqi military, are intended to discover the identities of any terrorists and spies in the United States and also to find any information that might be helpful to U.S. forces in Iraq.
The bulletin also repeated the FBI's search for Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a 27-year-old Saudi-born man who may be an al-Qaida operative. El Shukrijumah left the Miami area in May 2001 for Morocco, according to his family, but law enforcement officials say they do not know his whereabouts.
El Shukrijumah was identified in part by information collected after Mohammed's capture in Pakistan.
In addition, the bulletin asks police to look for Dr. Mohammed Khan, 33, and his estranged wife, 31-year-old Aafia Siddiqui, both of whom the FBI wants to question about possible terrorist ties.
Siddiqui, who has a doctorate in neurological science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may be in Pakistan, FBI officials say. She lived in Boston while attending MIT and also recently traveled in Maryland.
The bulletin provided no further information about Khan.
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Pakistani couple sought in Qaeda hunt http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_27-3-2003_pg7_56
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: The FBI is seeking a Pakistani couple for its links to a Saudi resident of South Florida with suspected Al Qaeda connections.
The Bureau’s Baltimore office said it was looking for Dr Aafia Siddiqui, 31, and her husband Mohammed Khan, 33, about possible terrorist activities.
The couple is suspected of having links with Adnan G El Shukrijumah, 27, who once lived in Miami but has since disappeared. The US agency believes he has links with Al Qaeda.
The FBI is looking for El Shukrijumah after an alias he used turned up in various places, including during the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Dr Siddiqui, a resident of the Boston area, is said to have visited Gaithersburg, Maryland, in December last year or January, but the FBI would not say what significance that visit had and whom she met. The agency believes she may have valuable information.
Dr Siddiqui has a PhD in neurological science and has studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, Massachusetts, as well as at Houston, Texas. The FBI believes Dr Siddiqui is now in Pakistan. While at MIT, she wrote a paper on the mechanics of setting up a Muslim student organisation. Both she and her husband were office-bearers of the Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching Inc.
In another development, the authorities announced this week that they would be interrogating 11,000 Iraqis living in the US, most of them American citizens. The move was immediately denounced as ‘racial profiling’.
It's arabic for friend, slang for bootleg booze or bathub gin. When in the Middle East the first question one invited to party asked was ......Is Sid invited ?......getting approval for bringing moonshine .
FiBi's making Moonshine or Monkeyshine this time ?.....Stay Safe !
Good catch.
That's why our "war" on a tactic is a jjoke.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
Meanwhile, Saudis are hands off?? Sheesh, what's it going to take? Nearly all the 9/11 murderers were Saudis, OBL's a Saudi...
"Anything we do until Saudi funding of the nasties ceases (even bet as to whether they collapse with or without our help) is a palliative at best. Eliminating nutball regimes with WMD programs is, however, a necessity in the meantme as that will remove targets for the immediate nuclear attack the American people will insist on once we suffer major WMD attacks at home. IMO the latter is more likely than not within ten years, excepting strikes with expedient weapons such as chemical weapons made in America from locally obtained ingredients, or resulting from attacks on industrial targets or shipping."
I agree, unfortunately the feds don't seem to have the stomach for it.
I'm all for it. How do we get that done?
I nevger said who they would not be safe from just that they would not be safe.
Well, start by contacting your local Representative on this issue.
Let me know how it goes! ; )
Democrats: The Un-Patriots
Had they chosen to cooperate with the President Bush in the War on Terror, today, the country might be safer.
Had they prevented "the library book" lie from spreading, today, the country might be safer.
Had they explained to their constituency, the islamofascists were the enemy not President Bush, today, the country might be safer.
Had they chosen to project a united front in the War on Terror and not undermine President Bush at every point, today, the country might be safer.
The Democrats and their intellectual stooges will have the blood Americans on their hands should another, God forbid, occur.
Had the Democrats expended as much energy in the security of this great nation as destruction of a great president. If those who would reply to this message kept their mouth shut and reflect upon the harm they have cost the great nation, they may be begin to serve their penance but will never pay their debt for the good fortune of finding their way to America.
Not only that, but they're recruiting non-Arabs in this country. People have been warning us about this problem for awhile now. "Onward Muslim Soldier" is a must-read on this topic.
Wow!! To heck with that noise: "Information." Identify, verify and terminate. Deliver unto the FBI the body, collect the bounty and let the deceased rest in pieces.
Everything you have said above is true.
Do you know how long "suspicious activity reports" have been being produced? Are they required of stores or just financial institutions?
June 2004 - White House Releases Documents on Torture in War on Terror
"...The other thing we determined is that we've got some key people there. Among them is a guy named al Khatani, a Saudi Arabian national born in 1975 who was picked up on the battlefield at the Pakistan-Afghani border in December of 2001. And we discovered and learned during the course of this period of time that al Khatani had taken a flight from the Toronto airport to the Orlando, Florida on the 4th of August, 2001. Waiting for him at the airport is Muhammad Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers. It's previously been reported that there was a Customs agent on the ground at the airport in Orlando who found something quite suspicious about al Khatani and, properly, turned him away.......What about Khatani? Did these techniques have any effect? Well, let's see. Al-Khatani had told us when he was first captured that he was in Afghanistan innocently, he was there to procure falcons because he was selling -- he was an expert in falconry and he was going to sell these falcons. He ultimately tells us that that cover story is false when he's challenged on his inability to explain any details about falconry. He admits that he met Osama bin Laden on several occasions. He provides detailed information on the following people: Jose Padilla, the dirty bomber; Richard Reid, the shoe bomber; and an individual by the name of Adnan El Shukrijumah, otherwise known Tayar Jafar, who, by the way, in the fall of 2002 was an individual we were seeking based upon the threat information, and who, by the way, was one of the six or seven people the Attorney General identified several weeks ago when he listed the number of people in whom the Department of Justice is interested, who may be wandering about the United States.
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