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Posted on 03/17/2006 12:24:25 PM PST by Dark Skies
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Recruits at Osama bin Laden ‘s terrorist training camps in Afghanistan were clamoring for suicide missions against the United States more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, according to al-Qaida documents declassified by the U.S. Defense Department.
One document published on the Pentagon Web site this week contained rare criticism of bin Laden from an al-Qaida operative, who accused the terrorist leader of monopolizing decision-making and ignoring advice.
Adel appealed to a friend in the al-Qaida leadership to steer the group away from the policies of bin Laden, whom he referred to as Abu Abdullah.
The documents provide a rare glimpse of the mentality and training of recruits at al-Qaida‘s camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden was based until late 2001. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, the United States threw its weight behind opponents of the Taliban regime that hosted bin Laden.
The U.S. military said the documents, published Wednesday, were "captured during recent operations." Some were seized in the 2003 invasion of Iraq but many, according to U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, were found in Afghanistan.
Another recruit referred to the 1998 suicide attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 231 people, saying: "We look forward to martyrdom operations like the ones in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. What are the characteristics of the man that is required to execute such operations?"
The recruits called bin Laden "sheik," a clerical title. But it was not clear whether their questions were addressed to him or to one of his lieutenants.
He then asked: "Is striking at the origin (America) the priority or is it driving them out (of Saudi Arabia)?"
Adel, the operative who criticized bin Laden, protests the leadership‘s posting on the Internet of a letter in which he sent kisses to his children.
A recruit said a reconnaissance plane has been spotted over the camp and asked: "Why aren‘t there enough personal weapons (Kalashnikov rifles) for the self-defense of all the holy warriors, particularly as an attack on the camp by the global infidels is possible anytime?"
Bin Laden is thought to have written one of the documents — a letter to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. It is not clear whether the letter was written before or after Omar was overthrown.
Bin Laden told Omar that if they continued attacks in the "Islamic republics" — apparently Muslim-dominated areas of the former Soviet Union — it will "keep the enemies busy and divert them away from the Afghan issue and ease the pressure."
"It is a fact that the region of the Islamic republics is rich with significant scientific experience in conventional and non-conventional military industries, which will have a great role in future holy war against the enemies of Islam," the letter said. It was not specific about the type of non-conventional armaments, but seemed to refer to biological and chemical warfare.
The letter also addressed the importance of communicating with the media, a matter on which Mullah Omar would have disagreed. The Taliban leader was known for refusing press interviews and avoiding cameras.
"It is obvious that the media war in this century is one of the strongest methods (of struggle). In fact, its ratio may reach 90 percent of the total preparation for battles," bin Laden wrote.
The release of the documents, which is expected to continue for months, is designed to allow U.S. lawmakers and the public to investigate issues such as what Saddam Hussein ‘s Iraqi regime said about weapons of mass destruction.
The Pentagon cautioned it has made "no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy."
Slowly, ever so slowly, information shall get out to the public despite the L/MSM efforts to minimize it, or misrepresent "gotchas", as mere conjecture etc.. All we need is a few dozen really smoking guns publicized from the Harmony Database as well as other sources. Word gets out, cybernews casts etc., are viewed by more people. The alphabets are on a long hard rocky road at this point, to keep things under wraps.
Imagine how many recruits are "clamoring for suicide missions against the United States" since 911. Wonder when they will "pull the trigger" here.
Release of Classified PreWar Docs ping. If you want to be added or removed to the ping list, please Freepmail me.
Thx! Excellent work!
"It is obvious that the media war in this century is one of the strongest methods (of struggle). In fact, its ratio may reach 90 percent of the total preparation for battles," bin Laden wrote.
He got that right.
bttt
"We must completely stop outside operations until we sit down and consider the disaster we have caused, writes the operative, who uses the name Abdel Halim Adel."
Creative editing?
Other story here (3rd paragraph down):
I remember making an error when I was inserting the html paragraph commands (I accidentally inserted one in the middle of a paragraph). I might have inadvertently erased the entire sentence instead of just the command.
lol...who do you think I am, Carl Rove?
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