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KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED WAS 'PLANNING MORE ATTACKS' ON USA...
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Posted on 03/02/2003 7:23:33 PM PST by ConservativeMan55

March 10 issue — In the top drawer of his desk in the Oval Office, President George W. Bush keeps a list of the most-wanted Qaeda operatives. Whenever one is captured or killed, he crosses his name off. Last week the president was able to draw a line through a very big name, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, regarded by U.S. intelligence services as the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks.

March 1 — The suspected mastermind of the 9/11 attacks against the U.S., Kalid Shaik Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.

MOHAMMED WAS NABBED by police at a hiding place in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The CIA had been chasing him for years. In some ways, Mohammed, sometimes called “The Brain,” was a more urgent target than Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda’s creepy Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Why? The CIA believes that the suave, well-educated, slightly pudgy Pakistani known to the feds as “KSM” was getting ready to hit the United States again.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alzawahiri; attacks; binladen; mohamed; terrorist; terrorplotus; terrorsuspect; unclesaddam; waronterror
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1 posted on 03/02/2003 7:23:34 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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2 posted on 03/02/2003 7:24:39 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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3 posted on 03/02/2003 7:25:21 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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Doesn't he look alot different today?
4 posted on 03/02/2003 7:26:31 PM PST by mickie
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To: ConservativeMan55; Jhoffa_
THEY TOOK THE BAR!!!!!! THE WHOLE F##KING BAR!!!!!


5 posted on 03/02/2003 7:26:33 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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Dude, where's my bomb?
6 posted on 03/02/2003 7:27:23 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government.)
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To: mickie
I'm still not certain as to whether Pakistan recently captured this thug, or whether they have had him for several months.
7 posted on 03/02/2003 7:27:27 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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8 posted on 03/02/2003 7:28:07 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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How does a man change the length and shape of his eyebrows?
9 posted on 03/02/2003 7:29:42 PM PST by ez ("Stable and free nations do not breed ... ideologies of murder."- GWB)
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With all that nasty hair, one wonders if he may have been in France for a period of time....Women don't shave over there you know.
10 posted on 03/02/2003 7:29:58 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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LOL!

Looks ike someone you would find taking a leak in the walmart parking lot!

11 posted on 03/02/2003 7:30:11 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Jhoffa_X)
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Whoever manhandled that slob to the ground must have done it by grabbing his T-shirt at the neck.
12 posted on 03/02/2003 7:34:33 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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With all that nasty hair, one wonders if he may have been in France for a period of time....Women don't shave over there you know.

You are right he looks like a French guy I met in Vegas once.
13 posted on 03/02/2003 7:34:40 PM PST by Delphinium
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How does a man change the length and shape of his eyebrows?

You have to be woman to understand the torture we go thru. Although he probably had his surgically done.

14 posted on 03/02/2003 7:35:37 PM PST by swheats
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And if the shirt broke, he cudda been nabbed by grabbing a handful of fur on his back!
15 posted on 03/02/2003 7:36:04 PM PST by L`enn
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To: ConservativeMan55
Interesting coverage on Fox. They had Mansoor Ijaz, their Middle East expert, on Rita Cosby's Sunday evening news program earlier this evening, and he laid out some interesting timelines. It seems, the tip that led to this guys capture came several weeks ago from an anonymous tip in some other Arab country (UAE, was it?)

The breakthrough was so profound that they soon figured out on whose trail they were, and Ijaz thinks that many other big Al Queda fish are in the offing in the coming days.

It leads me to wonder whether the Iraqi campaign really had been slated for execution this weekend, but postponed by Bush, on the basis of this fast and furious info coming in on this Pakistani trail.

We had Saddam detroying a missile or three, I think expecting us to commence hostilities with 117 of his missiles left intact. Now if we delay, for other strategic reasons, he'll have to come up with new excuses in the next week, why he can not continue destroying multiple missles per day.

I'm amazed at Bush's patience. But if these top AQ can provide vital intelligence info, it is possible a delay of days to weeks could save significant lives.

p.s. They noted the significant change in appearance on Fox as indicative that top AQ guys are undergoing plastic surgery to change appearances... which is also why bin Laden no longer does videos.

16 posted on 03/02/2003 7:36:31 PM PST by XEHRpa
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<< In the ’90s, he hooked up with his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, who had organized the first WTC bombing. Living together in the Philippines, Mohammed and Yousef had big plans. They were going to try to simultaneously blow up 11 American airliners over the Pacific. The scheme was foiled when one of their co-conspirators blew himself up in his apartment in Manila. >>

I thought their apartment caught fire and they fled, leaving behind a laptop full of information about Bojinka. ???

17 posted on 03/02/2003 7:36:36 PM PST by Nita Nuprez
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Does anybody have the ability to post pics. I just made a photoshop funny of this dude, and would like it posted to this thread! Please!
18 posted on 03/02/2003 7:36:54 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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He could pass for Bigfoot if you ask me. Or maybe he's the Legend of Boggy Creek.
19 posted on 03/02/2003 7:39:25 PM PST by Nita Nuprez
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To: Jhoffa_
Or fishing aluminum cans out of a dumpster.......lol
20 posted on 03/02/2003 7:40:01 PM PST by Husker24
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