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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.
11,304 posted on 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)
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To: WestCoastGal
that was the story Loftus was referencing.

now, what is this guy doing in Mexico?
11,308 posted on 01/16/2004 8:31:48 PM PST by oceanview
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To: WestCoastGal
Good grief and that's the one they think is in Mexico. O-MG.
11,314 posted on 01/16/2004 8:37:50 PM PST by Letitring
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To: WestCoastGal; JustPiper
Courtesy www.Trackingthethreat.com:

Midhat Mursi

- Considered Al Qaeda's master bomb maker
- May be building a "dirty" bomb and other new devices for terror attacks inside the United States
- Egyptian born
- Chemical engineer
- Considered the head of Al-Qaeda's weapons-of-mass-destruction committee
- Reported directly to Al-Qaeda's number- two, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
- a member of the Egyptian Jihad Islami


-Member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- Al Qaeda WMD Committee
-Reports to Ayman Al-Zawahiri
-Linked to Al Qaeda Jalalabad WMD Facility
-Linked to Richard Reid
11,515 posted on 01/17/2004 4:38:43 AM PST by judicial meanz
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