Posted on 05/30/2004 4:08:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Full Title (didn't fit in thread title):
NEWSWEEK: Al Qaeda Chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Wanted American Terror Suspect Gadahn to Join Plot to Blow Up Fuel Stations Near Baltimore
Captured Chief Says the Islam Convert Not Eager to Participate in 'Martydom' Operations, But Was Willing to Help
NEW YORK, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Captured Al Qaeda chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed -- "KSM" to his interrogators -- wanted American-born terror suspect Adam Yahiye Gadahn to join a plot to blow up fuel stations outside Baltimore, according to a May 2003 classified FBI document obtained by Newsweek. Gadahn, one of the seven terror suspects displayed by Attorney General John Ashcroft last week, had a pregnant Muslim wife at the time and was not eager to participate in "martydom" (suicide) operations, KSM reported, but he was willing to help out. He says he had last seen Gadahn, who had taken the name Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, in Karachi in October 2002, Newsweek reports in the current issue.
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Why Baltimore? (Unless maybe because it's close to DC?)
"Why Baltimore?"
Good question.
I am wondering what other attacks they are planning. AQ like multiple simultaneous attacks.
it tells me they have other cell members around Baltimore - one person cannot pull this off, he needs others.
Diversion? Blocking an escape route from DC?
There is a pipeline.
hide in mosques? why did they have to hide, chief moose was telling everyone to look for a white van.
Good point.
Another interesting piece of info from the article:
"According to Qari Saheb, a former driver for Taliban leader Mullah Omar, interviewed in January 2002 by Newsweek, Gadahn befriended another American-John Walker Lindh, later known by the media as the "American Taliban" after his capture in the Afghan war. Gadahn had offered to help Walker find a Muslim wife-his own wife's sister. Lindh was interested, but told Gadahn that he would marry only when he returned from the front lines. He wound up in an American prison."
Oh, and it wouldn't really be newsweek if the despicable magazine wouldn't add to their news report:
"But just because the administration may have been playing politics to shift attention from its own failings does not mean the terror warnings are
unwarranted."
I don't think anyone has reported that the snipers DID hide in mosques. The Home Depot was only a few blocks from a large mosque, but don't underestimate the incompetance of the investigation's leadership.
The snipers were terrorists, but from all appearances they were freelancing.
It would be worth it to really research any possible connections between Muhammad/Malvo and al qaeda.
Well, I consider it quite a coincidence that both snipers just happened to be Muslims.
Remind me again, why does Newsweek have access to "classified FBI documents"?
Newsweek is clearly part of the enemy among us.
The press release about their article I posted actually contained some fact and they just added that snide remark about politics, but their actual article is nothing but a vicious hit piece, accusing Bush of playing politics with the security of the nation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5092800/site/newsweek/
"With the president's poll numbers dropping, the Bush administration is surely eager to divert media and public attention from Iraq to the terrorist threat. Instead of the images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, the White House would prefer that voters see the faces of terrorists who aim to kill them."
Considerable disruption would result if a central LNG tank were put out of action during winter months.
Newsweek is "surely eager" to capitalize on the public's attention on the terrorist threat to sell magazines ...but they don't let that get in the way of their higher goal of getting Bush voted out of office.
Any of the things you have suggested are possible. AQ likes to do spectacular things, and I can't imagine that they really think an attack on gas stations in Baltimore alone would be spectacular.
Of course, those two freelance Muslims nuts who terrorized that area (Mohammed and Malvo) and killed so many people were effective, and it wasn't spectacular. Still, I think if this guy has the AQ "brand name," the attack would have been part of something more dramatic and against one of their earlier missed or incomplete targets (Pentagon, White House, etc.).
Perhaps I'm just plain dumb (wouldn't be the first time I've heard it - I have a couple of kids ;) ), but I don't get this. If the document is still classifid (and they don't say it isn't) isn't it a crime to print its details? Isn't it a crime to just have it? Why do the media continually get away with this?
The two parts of the "article" that you reference in 2 of your posts are unbelieveable, aren't they? Time is guilty of editorializing to the max; such sentences do not belong in a "news" piece. They belong in the column of a liberal or in a liberal editorial.
I'm guessing our boy is probably worm pie, actually. You don't hit the big leagues and then back out. He has too much info to be drawing breath.
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