Posted on 11/23/2007 4:36:27 PM PST by ZacandPook
Here is a movie issued today proposing a neo-Nazi/islamofascist/911 truther theory. Pictures and music are effective and fun-to-watch propaganda. Reminiscent of video earlier this year pitching an Iraq theory in style.
First comment to video summarizes:
"Microbiologist working with Bin Laden's sheik and recruiting for the Taliban worked about 15 feet from the USAMRIID head and famed Russian bioweaponeer. Ali Al-Timimi. Sentenced to life plus 70 years for sedition. High security clearance for work for the Navy. Letter of commendation from WH. Once worked briefly for Andrew Card while he was at DOT. In bioinformatics program co-sponsored by the American Type Culture Collection. Access to Center for Biodefense facilites funded by DARPA ($13 million). Taught by Bin Laden's sheik al-Hawali in Saudi Arabia. On first anniversary of the mailings to Senator Leahy and Daschle, hand-delivered to every member of Congress letter warning against invading Iraq. Senior jihadist who met with Atef and Ayman (head of anthrax program) in summer of 2000 says purpose to deter invasion of Afghanistan. Promptly questioned by FBI. Confidential security and criminal investigation ongoing."
The reason the WH took Cipro was, as the WP explained in Fall 2001, it was a bio attack that was expected. (For example, former NY FBI OBL head John O'Neill was advising WTC head that an anthrax attack was expected which is why they bought biohazard suits; this was all the subject of testimony before a Congressional committee and so it is baseless to use the tired "they were already taking Cipro" argument.
But I do recommend watching it. If only people with the talent to do these videos took the time to put music and pictures to the truth supported by the evidence.
For background and evidence and the new development of a possible new trial threatened by the federal district court judge in the Al-Timimi case (because of an issue of NSA wiretapping), see
“Anthrax, Al Qaeda and Al-Timimi, November 15, 2007
http://www.bloggernews.net/111719
and
Al-Timimi and NSA Wiretapping: What The Government Is Not Telling Us
http://www.bloggernews.net/111785
Interesting.
Anthrax was targeted against the weak members of Congress.
Somewhat like the protests during the 1968 Democratic Convention.
As for the reason for targeting the particular Senators.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze43v8m/alqaeda,anthraxd.html#Leahy%20Law
Indeed, targeting the top legislator and the security law person was exactly their pattern and modus operandi in the 1990s in Egypt.
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze43v8m/alqaedaanthraxay.html#TargetedAssassination
The December 2003 issue of the Acumen Journal of Life Sciences
named Dr. Alibek and Dr. Bailey as two of the top five biological warfare experts in the nation. I fully expect another expect among the top 5 would be another frequent helpful consultant to theses at GMU, William Patrick.
The Salafist committed to the destruction of the United States was about 15 feet from two of the top five biological warfare experts in the US. Ali shared a fax machine with Dr. A and Dr. B. Another of the top 5 experts walked the halls, helpfully providing insights to students.
Al-Timimi had hand-delivered to every member of Congress a letter warning against invading Iraq on the first anniversary of the anthrax letters. The letter was in the name of the sheik who had been the express subject of the 1996 Declaration of War and the 1998 claim of responsibility for the embassy bombings.
The FBI has known all of this for a half decade. They kept mum for tactical reasons — and found a different means of sending Al-Timimi away for life.
The FBI has been quite brilliant. The abominable leaks about Dr. Hatfill occurred 5 years ago. Before the NSA intercepted Ali Al-Timimi’s conversations with Sheik al-Hawali.
When Ali was in Rm. 154b, one grad student who recently published a thesis describing the various theories as to weaponization thanks both Alibek and Patrick (and Bailey). While Ali was there, the directory shows she was in Rm. 157. She explained that as to this issue of silica, silica may have been used for “polymerization” — a method used in pharma industry to help the drug get to the intended organ. It would avoid the need for expensive equipment. Thus, it is clear that her advisors, including Patrick who has consulted with the FBI, may now credit TrebleRebel’s theory as to silica (even though it is not used for absorbing moisture as it was used previously in munitions).
TrebleRebel is right about Vander Waals forces. The confusion in part has resulted from people not distinguishing between electrostatic charges and vander waals forces — and instead using the vague phrase “electrical charge.”
There are three major airports in the DC area. The main post office servicing US government headquarters agencies, plus Congress and the White House are located there.
The routing that would be followed by the letters directed against any two Senators would take them through the 2 main DC area airports, the main post office, the facilities directly supporting Congress, the CIA, the DOD, etc.
The ceremonial aspect of the situation was the feeble attempt to "blame the Jews" ~ which pretty much gives you the AlQaida connection (if nothing else did). That was when they used the addresses of two US Senators (Dascle and Leahy) and one major TV news guy (Brokaw) in the exact same, but otherwise nonstandard and unusual, format they had appeared in a website store (about a totally different topic) maintained by Jews for Life.
I hope everybody remembers the immediate ME response was, of course, that "the Jews did it".
Perhaps a key clue will prove to be the computer that accessed the addresses in the particular format. The Wall Street Journal reported in Fall 2002 that freelance computer security consulant Richard Smith Mr. Smith has been following clues. The anthrax letters sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, he noticed that they both bore nine-digit ZIP codes, not the more-usual five-digit codes. “Not a lot of people use them,” he says. “So I started looking at this letter and asked, ‘How would someone get that kind of address?’ “ He tracked down two Web sites that carried nine-digit codes for both senators. Mr. Smith then sent an e-mail explaining his discovery to Juan Cabanela, an assistant professor at Haverford College who maintained one of the sites of congressional addresses. Dr. Cabanela searched his records and found three computer servers that had looked up both addresses. As Clinton Van Zandt, a former member of the FBI’s behavioral-sciences unit in Quantico, Va. said, “Who would not want to be the person who cracked the anthrax case?”
I’ve written Mr. Smith to ask him if the website page you mention is one of the websites. In the meantime, while I wait on his website, do you have a link to the website (using the Wayback Machine) at http://www.archives.org )
that would support your statement that the address was in that format at that URL?
I meant “www.archive.org” not archives.org
Here are the results of the spider crawling over that website dating back to January 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.jewsforlife.org/
Where do the addresses appear?
Where is there even a store?
What is authority for the statement/claim? Thanks.
Did you get it from some other web poster without actually seeing the addresses in that format? (The distinguishing thing about the address is the full zipcode.) Thanks.
I believe from a previous post you made you understand the website to have contained those addresses from June 2001. Is that right?
Using the Wayback machine results, can you link it from the results in the www.archive.org ?
I believe Al-Timimi did strongly oppose abortion on Islamic grounds and spoke about it at an international conference in China about women and health issues. But the first question is: what evidence is there that the addresses uniquely appeared on the website mentioned?
Press release issued by Al-timimi:
______________________________ ____________________
IANA’s Delegation Arrives in China
Various Activities Planned
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, August 30, 1995
By Allahs grace and blessings, The Islamic Assembly of North Americas
delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women:
Action for Equality, Development and Peace, 4-15 September 1995,
Beijing, China has safely arrived.
The delegation is being led by Shaikh Ali Al-Timimi and consists of Dr.
Rafil Dhafir, Dr. Bassem Khafagi, Mr. Idris Palmer, and Ms. Ziyana
Al-Rawahi. The delegation has established a center for communications
and reception in Beijing and an information booth in Huairou.
Over the next ten days, the delegation is scheduled to deliver the
following six lectures:
1. Women in Islam
2. An Islamic Response to the Draft Platform of Action
3. The Prophetic Role Model for Dealing with Women
4. Role of Women in a Muslim Family
5. A Critique of Muslim Feminism
6. Womens Health Issues
Additionally IANA will distribute over 13,000 copies of IANAs conference
booklet on The Wisdom Behind the Islamic Laws Regarding Women by Shaikh
Abdur-Rahman Abdul-Khaliq. This booklet is now available in Arabic,
English, Chinese, Swahili, and German. IANA, Allah willing, will
continue to update you throughout the conference with further press
releases.
For further Information Contact:
Ali Al-Timimi
(IANA Delegation Head) Kunlun Hotel
Tel. 8610-500-3388 (IANA Suite # 1547)
Fax 8610-500-3228
3. Women Conference: Day 2 .............................. ........... from IANA
from
IANA
Women Conference: Day 2
Islamic Assembly of North America, IANA
Press Release #4
Day 2 at the NGO Forum
For Immediate Release
Friday, September 01, 1995
***
Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a delegate of the Islamic Assembly of North America
(IANA) and Vice-Chairman of the Assembly, refuted the allegations and
distortions of the speaker. Dr. Rafil proceeded to explain that while
Islam has permitted female circumcision it has not obligated it and that
none has the right to forbid that what Allah, the Creator, has
permitted. Dr. Rafil also corrected the misinformation given by the
speaker that female circumcision is a form of genital mutilation. Dr.
Rafil, who is a practicing physician, referred to the fact that there
are over 170 scientific studies showing that female circumcision when
practiced in accordance with the sunna (or tradition of the Prophet
Muhammad) leaves no physical, psychological, or emotional harm. The
speaker was left unable to respond.
***
IANAs First Lecture Women in Islam
Ali Al-Timimi, IANAs delegation head, delivered IANAs first lecture on
Women in Islam to a filled lecture tent.
***
IANA Distributes Its Position Paper
The Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) distributed over a thousand
copies of its position paper on the UN Fourth World Conference on Women.
IANA also distributed a large number of its conference booklet on The
Wisdom Behind Islamic Laws Regarding Women by Shaykh Abdur-Rahman
Abdul-Khaliq. This booklet is available in five languages among which is
Chinese. Many Chinese delegates showed great interest in this booklet as
it seems to be the only Islamic information in Chinese available at the
Conference. And all praise belongs to Allah.
[This guy Abdul-Khaliq wrote that no treaties may be honored — jihad must be waged, for example, despite the Camp David Accord. The anthrax was sent on the anniversary of the Camp David Accord and Sadat’s assassination (he was killed for entering into the treaty)
But in the booklet by Abdul-Khaliq that was translated by Ali Al-Timimi, what did he say about abortion?
I am not the guy who found it ~ a USPS top level operations analyst did ~ he asked the question "why such a peculiar address format", structured a search with the correct Boolean commands in it, and found the THREE ADDRESS formatted exactly that way in a newsletter on a website as identified.
Interesting, eh?!
FBI has known that little deal since the beginning of the entire investigation.
Top level USPS operations analyst have had the entire structure figured out for 6 years. The FBI ignored 100% of what the analysts told them in favor of some BS concocted by an FBI agent who worked as a PTF on 2nd Tour at a small MPC for 6 months.
The principals at the FBI had no interest in solving the Anthrax case fearing the war-time/war-victims liability due the 800,000 USPS employees who were potentially harmed.
A senior and highly experienced postal analyst at USPS headquarters wrote up a "search" that included all the Boolean structures so that he could find EXACTLY the same format somewhere else.
He hit paydirt instantly. That was the Jews for Life site.
They, in turn, had simply copied the three addresses off their data base system, and that involved ending up placing "BLDG" below the line with the name of the building.
Lots of folks do this when carving up newsletters.
You'd also get the 9 digit Zip for those addresses ~ and I'd just betcha' FEDEX, all by itself, was the source for HUNDREDS of 9 digit Zip searches per day for that floor of the US Senate office building.
Not to say that would be a fools errand to go tracking after those lookups, but, alas, it would.
Remember, "BLDG" below the line ~ that's the meaningful clue.
Now, how do we know it was AlQaida. Well, we don't exactly, but we certainly know the fellow(s) who wrote/copied the addresses on the envelopes follows, to the T, the exact address as published in that newsletter. were foreigners with little command of English, or any Western or Indo-European language. Else, they'd known they could write BLDG on the line.
The Jews for Life folks were just sloppy editors who did know better.
Ask the FBI for their copy.
I would imagine the number of Freepers alone looking it up back in 2002 would have crashed their server on a regular basis.
“FBI agent who worked as a PTF on 2nd Tour at a small MPC for 6 months.”
What does PTF mean?
What does MPC mean?
What BS did the PTF at a MPC he concoct?
I find it interesting if it were verifiable as true. I’m heartened that you say someone found it in an official capacity but disappointed it appears to be secondhand. It would be even more interesting if Richard Smith independent found it to be true at the time. I have looked at the website and am not seeing it.
Separately, how does your claim as to the location and timing of the mailing begin to square with the spores found at the mailbox at 10 Nassau Street in Princeton? (Not in terms of mail flow, but in terms of the spores found in that box). Also, given there was a big difference in potency, why don’t you credit there were two mailings — with return addresses only on the second mailings).
“I have my own copy of the original posting. Copied the whole thing over to FrontPage and then saved it. Lots of people did.”
Very cool. When will you be back at your machine so as to be able to provide it.
In the meantime, I’ll try to find Ali’s translation of Khaliq’s book and its discussion of abortion. Or Ali’s discussion of abortion.
More news at the time posted by IANA delages on the conference:
“Pro-Life, Pro-Choice Clash
Dr. Rafil attended a lecture “Abortion Aftermath” by a US pro-life
group, “International Right to Life Federation” which attempted to
present some recent scientific evidence about “post-abortion syndrome,”
holding that a woman who after an abortion, will feel a sense of guilt,
shame and depression many years after her abortion. A large attendance
by pro-choice partisans fiercely attempted to disrupt the meeting,
causing a shouting match, both sides accusing each other of lies and
deception. It is worth noting that both groups were from the US, and
that a woman from Kenya stood up begging them, “to settle your scores in
the US and not here.” She stated that she never imagined that women from
the US could be so rude with each other when they disagree publicly. And
while she has never been to the US, based on her attendance at this
lecture, she has no plans to visit.”
Speaking of authoritative, I was responsible for writing the Domestic Mail Manual circa 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981.
I am authoritative
The remark about the FBI investigators was an insult to them. Best anyone could tell they had a couple of amateur part-time letter carriers who decided they were experts in USPS operations, and they listened to them and abandoned USPS analysts.
Maybe it was because the postal guys were able to deduce such things as "all the envelopes were taped over and the tape was taken from a single roll" ~ ALL. The guy who figured that out simply lined up the cutlines at the end of the tape.
FBI folks do not like simple answers. That's why they ended up doing their dumpster diving in a small lake in Maryland that they pumped dry to see if there was some junk in there.
The FBI clearly never wanted the case solved.
What happens is that the USPS standard operating practice is to place letter/flat trays in the bottom of letter mail collection boxes on the street. The boxes are made from a corrugated plastic material. It compresses under the weight of mail, and expands as mail is removed from the box. The corrugation "straws" suck air, and any bacteria, "in". Then, when the box is again filled with mail, the "straws" are compressed, and any air, with any bacteria present, are blown out thereby contaminating whatever location the box is in.
These boxes travel at a high velocity through the postal system.
Some mail processing equipment sent from the Brentwood facility in DC for repair elsewhere had already been contaminated. Spores were spread everywhere with that event.
I don't think FBI or USPS have ever made public the degree and extent of contamination.
If this attack had turned out the way it was planned, we are speaking of tens of thousands to millions of people being affected.
Just be glad the terrorists screwed it up.
There were two mailings. Very different potencies. One with return address, one not. Different content in text of letters.
As for the intent, you posit they intended to kill a lot of people.
I posit that they understood the koran to require a warning and that the mailed anthrax was intended to deter an invasion of Afghanistan — it was a warning.
So what is your understanding of the spores in the mailbox at 10 Nassau St?
As for what is authoritative, the FBI has determined there were two mailings. One on or about September 18 and one on or about October 9. With Monday being a federal holiday, it would seem it could have been mailed as early as Saturday.
But putting aside for now any explanation of mailflow, how do you explain the heavy concentration of spores at the mailbox at 10 Nassau St.
I do note though that Abdel-Rahman’s chief aide worked at the Post Office and would be familiar with basic procedures.
How many postal inspectors are there on the task force? 8? 10?
I see that you’ve answered the question about the spores in the mailbox. Thanks.
Note that in Florida on the way to AMI, they traced two different routes going to AMI, as two different addresses were used, one relating to one of the publications at a different, older address.
They could trace the route going inward. There was no tracing from an origin in Florida.
Why would an envelope mailed a week before 9.11 take many weeks to be delivered? How does that make any sense whatsoever?
Al-Timimi would not have been involved in anything resulting in mass casualties in the US. He thought 9/11 was islamically impermissible. Moreover, the thought was that the granting of a visa prevented acting against the host. Finally, he thought there was an individual duty to engage in jihad in defense of the ummah. Thus, he exhorted young men to go abroad. He would only have participated in the use of mailed anthrax if it were a warning. Former Amerithrax head Michael Mason posited that perhaps the mailer did not intend anyone to die. I think he was right. (Indeed, that is why the warning was given and the recipient was instructed to take penicillin).
FR bookmark
Bookmark and bump.
On February 26, 2003, at the same minute they raided Al-Timimi’s townhouse, they raided the residence of two PhD level drying experts associated with IANA. It was part of OPERATION IMMINENT HORIZON. 100 agents simultaneously interviewed 150 people. Just as Ayman Zawahiri used the cover of charities and universities to weaponize anthrax, the FBI used the cover of charity investigations to investigate that anthrax weaponization.
We know Al-Timimi’s views from testimony at trial. And we know the care he took in interpreting the hadiths in seeking guidance as to issues of fiqh, or islamic jurisprudence, from speeches.
The views I outlined above are set out by the President of an IANA spin-off, a charity called Help The Needy and are still available online. The Vice-President was Idris Palmer, Ali’s colleague and co-founder at Society for the Adherence of the Sunnah.
The FBI has established that the anthrax was cultured in the Northeastern United States through analysis of isotope ratios.
Compounding the problem the terrorists mailed them on Friday evening at street collection boxes ~ it's a wonder those letters even surfaced later on to be entered into the preferential mailstream up in central New Jersey.
They were all necessarily mailed in Boca Raton.
We all have extensive first-hand experience in mailing. None of us have had the experience of mailing a large group of letters a week before 9/11 and not have it get to the variety of addresses (including some local) for weeks, some not until mid-October.
The FBI and USPS emphatically reject the suggestion that a batch of letters mailed a week before 9/11 would then self-divide into two waves, separated by purity of processing, text of letter and return, with one wave taking over 2 weeks to arrive and one wave taking 4 weeks to arrive. Note that you are saying it took more than a month for letters mailed in Boca Raton to get to an address just a few miles away at AMI.
The best, most authoritative (IMO) view of the routing of letters was a graphic display presented by two US Postal Inspectors at an Interpol conference. It’s the one with dates and little figures of people on it. By 2003, the\ Task Force had spent 231,000 agent hours on the investigation. They have had lots of time to consult with all manner of expert relating to the routing of letters, even down to when they cross the sorting machine (for example, in tracing cross-contamination to the woman in CT). So we’ll just have to disagree on the point of mailing (and timing of mailings).
Coincidental or not, they recently indicted the man paralleling the Al Qaeda webmaster who lived 6 miles from the mailbox near 10 Nassau St.
In July 2004, ABC that the FBI had imposed on itself a deadline for bringing a case that could stand up in court or not. On September 23, 2004, they indicted Babar Ahmad, webmaster of the so-called Al Qaeda website, in which it explained in a FAQ that green birds of paradise take the souls of martyrs to paradise. (The President of the charity in the post about raising children to give their life in jihad used the green birds imagery too; it is common imagery, having been used by Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, OBL etc). The imagery is from a quote about “The Straight Path.” That was the name of the journal for which Al-Timimi served as advisor. The Cairo-based founder of Egyptian Islamic Jihad wrote for the Pittsburgh-based journal and when it folded in 2000 went to write for IANA’s quarterly journal, in which they discussed violence, democracy and the best means of achieving the goals of the jihadists. The US Post Office employee, Abdel-Rahman’s chief aide, relayed the EIJ’s founder’s letter to the blind sheik proposing forming a democratic party through Lynn Stewart in early March 1999 during a prison visit. The Blind sheik rejected the idea. On March 9, 1999, the blind sheik’s lawyer in Cairo announced that the militants would likely use weaponized anthrax to retaliate for the detention and rendering of senior EIJ leaders. Then they did in Fall 2001. The documentary evidence establishes Ayman used scientists to infiltrate the UK and US biodefense establishment. On October 6, 2004, they indicted Ali Al-Timimi.
Errata -
I said:
“Note that you are saying it took more than a month for letters mailed in Boca Raton to get to an address just a few miles away at AMI.”
The ones to AMI, under your scenario, took over a couple of weeks, not a month. But the ones to the Senators (if mailed at the same time) took over a month.
Why on earth would you assume all the letters were mailed at the same time? I get the impression you wrote your theory up at a time the focus was on whether the hijackers could have mailed the anthrax — and now are wedded to the idea. Well, open up your mind. The hijackers had friends in the US, to include the Falls Church imam Awlaki who met with Hani and Nawaf according to the 911 Commission Report. Awlaki spoke alongside Al-Timimi abroad in the Summer of 2001. He has a video from this summer where from Yemen he explains the coming signs of Victory. He was picked up in the Summer of 2007 after years of surveillance by US and British authorities.
In a book published in May 2007, George Tenet said that the anthrax planning was done in parallel to the 9/11 planning. But he explained it was done with strict compartmentalization at the highest levels.
As for Florida, note that Atta’s red hands are explainable by the home made gas they used to disable passengers.
The hijackers lesion likely relates to the extremely virulent anthrax pre-911 at Kandahar. He had just come from Kandahar. He says a month earlier had caused a gash on his leg while carrying a suitcase.
Finally, note that many hijackers lived in NJ. For example, the ones from Falls Church then relocated to New Jersey.
Now if you said the hoax letter to Troxler was mailed by a friend of the hijackers, I would agree that was mailed from St. Petersburg, as was the hoax letter to Judy Miller. I don’t recall offhand, but I think perhaps the letter to Judy Miller was mailed the week before 9/11.
The real Iraq connection.
The documentary evidence (n the missile sting case involving Albany imam Aref (including the defendant’s journal and correspondence seized on 2/26/003) showed that Ali Al-Timimi’s friend, the oncologist, was expected to set up a US center for the founder of Ansar al-Islam, Mullah Krekar. (The letter, as I recall, was from the summer of 1999).
Ansar al-Islam, later formed by Mullah Krekar in late 2001, was penetrated by Iraqi intelligence (a senior fellow named Wael). The oncologist gave money each year to the group renamed Ansar.
And Michael Scheuer says that sigint, humint and one of the other ints showed without a doubt that Ansar was experimenting not only with ricin but anthrax. (He recommended to the President that Ansar be bombed and feels the alternative of invasion just made the world far less safe).
And so the Administration had a lot of very difficult sorting of the evidence to do.
They were faced by someone who had infiltrated US biodefense using the cover of charities and universities — just as the documentary evidence shows that Ayman had planned to do. And the fellow was working closely not only with Bin Laden’s sheik but a group seeking to set up a caliphate in Northern Iraq, using money laundered through fundraising in the US.
They chose to neutralize all US-based operatives with prosecutions for other perceived crimes. As a result, though, we haven’t been told anything meaningful about Amerithrax for five years — other than Director Mueller’s suggestion that we think 9/11, think Oklahoma City.
In September 1999, a London cleric made a formal and public call to Bin Laden to use bioweapons against the US. OBL formally replied and his reply was read in London mosques. What was his reply?
On the question of the killing of civilians and innocents, mass casualties, etc, Bin Laden’s reply to this 1999 call is pretty solid evidence of how Bin Laden would use weaponized anthrax (if ever he developed it).
What did he say about killing civilians with bioweapons?
As background, the timeline was:
-In March 1999, confidantes of Zawahiri on trial in Cairo said that he was planning on using anthrax against US targets.
-In a news article on March 9, 1999, the blind sheik’s lawyer (lawyer for many of the detainees in the Cairo trial) also said Zawahiri intended to use weaponized anthrax against US targets.
-That week in March 1999, an IANA writer who had founded the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and been in Ayman’s small cell in Cairo in the late 1970s, approached the blind sheik about forming a political party. The blind sheik rejected the idea which had been relayed by his chief aide, a US Post Office employee. Ayman corresponded with folks about this proposal, anxious to know what they were doing and asking everyone’s thinking on the subject.
-In an April/May 1999 memos to Atef, Zawahiri wrote a memo outlining some of his thoughts to Atef and suggesting they would use universities and charities as cover for recruitment of specialists. He did that in both the UK and the US. The EIJ’s founder’s advisor on a journal published in Pittsburgh was microbiologist Al-Timimi whose studies brought him to an office just 15 feet from Ken Alibek and USAMRIID Charles Bailey.
-And so this September 1999 public dialogue seems to have followed the private consultations and represents their resolution of this issue which they had been debating internally since September 1998 when Ayman first solicited the advice of EIJ deep thinkers in a letter.
In both March and September 1999, the blind sheik’s lawyer in Cairo had conference calls with the blind sheik’s chief aide (the US Post Office worker who worked with Lynne Stewart) and senior militant leaders in Afghanistan. Ironically, in the small world department, Francis Boyle who first publicly promoted the biodefense insider theory in national media has worked closely with another highly regarded lead lawyer for blind sheik Abdel-Rahman.
OBL’s reply to this 1999 call to use bioweapons is relevant to profiling the anthrax crimes. All the pundits made a big deal about how AQ’s modus operandi was a “big bang” — that AQ would never give a warning to take penicillin. Actually the koran requires a warning upon use of a poison. The Salafists interpret the koran and hadiths literally and seek to lead their lives and conduct their warfare by that guidance.
What Bin Laden said is highly pertinent to profiling — it is the best evidence of how he interpreted the koran and hadiths on this issue at the time of the mailings.
I believe it was not until June 2002 that there was the first religious ruling that a biological weapon could be used to inflict mass casualty of civilians.
Maceskill, Mark, and Nicolas Ruford. “Muslim Calls for Bio-Weapon Holy War.” Sunday Times (5 September 1999)
From the Sunday Times,
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws02012.html?99
September 5 1999 BRITAIN
London-based Muslim calls for holy war
Mark Macaskill and Nicholas Rufford
A MUSLIM cleric is running the risk of being deported after calling for
attacks with biological weapons on western targets. Omar Bakri Muhammad, a
refugee and father of seven living in north London, has emerged as the
extreme voice of international Muslim fanaticism. He is a friend of Abu
Hamza, the mullah with metal claws for hands, who was linked to the Britons
imprisoned in Yemen on terrorist charges.
In an open letter read out in mosques across Britain and published on the
internet, Bakri called on Muslims to rise up in a jihad, or holy war,
against America and its allies.
Bakri, who has claimed disability benefit and income support, addressed his
call to Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist suspected of bombing two American
embassies and murdering 256 people. Bakri invited Bin Laden to “aim your
weapons at occupying forces”. “May Allah protect you and grant you victory,”
he said. He later advocated the use of germ agents against westerners
occupying holy lands. The letter was taken off the internet after American
officials complained.
***
Last week Bakri said that civilian casualties were inevitable in a holy war:
“Using any biological weapons in self-defence is, in Islam, permissible, and
I believe that we are currently operating under a defensive jihad.
Obviously, we regret what could happen to innocent people, but there are
always people who are war casualties or, if you like, victims of war.”
***
Bodansky said Bin Laden had taken encouragement from Bakri’s message and had issued a reply that was read out in mosques in Pakistan and Britain. The
American government is offering a reward of $5m for information leading to
the capture of Bin Laden, who is blamed for terrorist attacks on American
embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, last year.
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