To: oceanview
To: oceanview
January 12, 2004 - 07:28
US launches worldwide hunt for Al-Qaeda's bombmaker
New York: U.S. intelligence agencies have launched a worldwide manhunt for Al-Qaeda's master bombmaker, who, they contend, may be building a 'dirty' bomb and other new devices for terror attacks inside the United States, a media report has said.
U.S. counter-terrorism officials were quoted by the New York Post as saying that it was new information about the activities of Egyptian-born bomb maker Midhat Mursi, in part, that led the Bush administration to secretly dispatch Department of Energy radiological detection teams to New York and four other cities at New Year's eve.
Before the Bush administration decided to raise the nationwide alert level to Code Orange, an al Qaeda informant had said that Mursi, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Khabab, was active again, intelligence officials told The Post.
Intelligence officials said Mursi is a chemical engineer who was head of al Qaeda's weapons-of-mass-destruction committee and reported directly to Al-Qaeda's number- two, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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01/16/2004 8:29:12 PM PST by
WestCoastGal
("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
To: oceanview
"Mursi, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Khaba"
This must be the Khahdi/Saif al whatshisface character.
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