Posted on 08/04/2004 10:17:57 PM PDT by Steven W.
New evidence supports the belief that a terror plot to bomb U.S. financial targets could still be in the works ...
Officials cite three pieces of evidence to support the claim, reports Martin. First, the 500 pages of surveillance files stored in the computer of an al Qaeda operative captured last month in Pakistan have been transmitted to other operatives in the past year.
Second, the captured al Qaeda man, who goes by the name Abu Talha, has provided evidence of phone calls between al Qaeda operatives and someone in the U.S. within the past year.
Third, under questioning Talha has said based on what he knows, al Qaeda could still be planning an attack on U.S. financial institutions.
Besides pointing out safety concerns for the buildings in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J., the evidence indicates the presence of al Qaeda operatives inside the U.S.
Also Wednesday, the Bush administration learned from an imprisoned terror suspect, separately from the documents and two prisoners named this week, that al Qaeda was plotting to attack U.S. financial buildings, officials said Wednesday, rejecting criticism that the government's latest terror warning was overblown. ...
The FBI is monitoring al Qaeda operatives and others associated with Islamic terror groups inside the United States, although these people have not been directly linked to the threat against financial buildings, the Justice Department official said. These people include financiers for Ansar al-Islam, the official said.
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This makes no sense to me. If the gov. knows these killers are here - knows where they are enough to keep an eye on them -- why aren't they arrested or at least kicked out of this country?
Thank goodness CBS confirmed it for us. The President of the United States, his National Security Advisor, and Homeland Security Advisor probably know nothing about whether it was real or not. That's why we need the media to second-guess their decisions and tell us if we REALLY need to worry or not, or if this is just political. Now that CBS and the NYT confirm it, I believe it. </sarcasm>
There might reasons that we don't about.
I'm assuming we watch them so they'll lead us to higher ups,
BUT...
I keep seeing scenes in my mind of old TV shows where the FBI is trailing somebody and loses them.
If that is the strategy, I'd like to know why they keep saying we've caught a courier who's trying to get a message from AZ to OBL. Why not just follow him till he delivers it?
Noted, but of course there is no connection to Iraq [/sarcasm].
The main reason that people are kept under surveillance is obvious- the development of evidence and the hope that investigators will be led to additional conspirators.
Keep an eye on them to find out how many more Al Qaeda are around besides the operatives. A big risk grant you, but one that may pay dividends.
Arrested Men's Shaved Bodies Drew Suspicion of the F.B.I.
These guys, with shaved bodies, flew out of Newark on 9/11. They had run a newsstand in Newark. They were arrested on a train in Texas. They had box cutters, hairdye, multiple passports, money, etc.
Ayub Ali Kahn and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath
Gul Mohammed Shah, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmat, .
Some of the suspects rounded up in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks
The men were roommates of Mohammad Aslam Pervez,
Sounds like AQ compartmentalizes their operations. Surveillance is not connected to field ops per se. Thus the age of data doesn't have much impact on potential targets because how surveillance is acted upon is not related to the actual surveillance. The moving of that surveillance data to anyone is troublesome.
Actually the Govt. has changed tactics from observe to disrupt. If these guys bite off a hang nail with out a permit they are taken in. AND NO ... you don't hear about them on the evening news.... ON PURPOSE.
2 reasons... the obvious we are not going to tip off their guys they are talking two....
the second... Think about all the people that would be Freaking out if we announced that Mohamed the nice guy at the rug shop, that was in your home last spring with the carpet samples, is a member of a cell....
It isn't going to happen that you will hear about all the arrests.
Imagine a movie in which the cavalry is chasing a bad guy through the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The bad guy flees from safe house to safe house. The cavalry is right on his tail.
But the clever cavalry commander also stations a couple of troopers inside each of the old safe houses.
Then in Iraq, another bad guy sends a courier to deliver a message in Afghanistan. He knows a series of safe houses to go to until he finds the intended recipient.
Problem for him is that he shows up at a safe house that has the troopers hidden inside...
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