Posted on 06/16/2004 6:30:01 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
(New York-WABC, June 16, 2004) The FBI has arrested an American citizen living in Queens said to be a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda.
ABC News reports investigators have tied the man to a terrorist cell set to carry out a series of bombings and assassinations in London.
The man, a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, was secretly taken into custody in April.
He is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan and is said to be cooperating offering investigators significant information about Al Qaeda's plans.
He is being held as a material witness and his family is now under federal protection.
The man has told investigators that Al Qaeda is planning more attacks in the United States. He has also revealed a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the Mexican border.
The suspect's assertions were part of the intelligence that led to recent warnings about a summer threat from Al Qaeda.
Another man being held today is kidnapped American Paul Johnson.
A video on an Arabic website shows Johnson blindfolded. His abductors claim to be with a group called "Al Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula." They say they'll kill Johnson unless Saudi authorities free Al Qaeda prisoners by Friday.
Johnson was taken hostage last Saturday. He has worked in the kingdom since 1992 for defense contractor Lockheed Martin. His son is now trying direct appeals to the kidnappers.
Paul Johnson III, Son: "Whoever's responsible for this, I would trade in a heartbeat for my father. He doesn't deserve this and I plead with y'all to please let my father go."
Johnson's abduction is part of a growing campaign to kill and kidnap Americans, pushing them out of the Saudi Arabia. The royal family vows to pursue anti-western militants more aggressively than ever before.
Hmm... just about time for me to enlist in the National Guard in Texas. I'll gladly be posted on the border with an assault weapon.
And time to deport all non-citizen Muslims.
Is that not the purpose of this forum? To post opinions and communicate ideas?
Why are you trying to make me the issue here? What is you're motive?
Perhaps Presidente Bush, being our commander-in-chief, should to see what the law says is to be done regarding illegal aliens, for one thing. And for another, perhaps he would like to reconsider our policies of openness with the Middle East.
Maybe it's because the northern border isnt 1/100 of the problem as the southern border.
Maybe it's because the northern border isnt 1/100 of the problem as the southern border.
Smirk....
YIKES!
Hope we keep a better watch on the borders than we have been in response to this.
Take my word for it, it's what I do for a living.
Well uh, yeah, that's painfully clear.
This is why many American's are not what you would consider "happy" with the Federal government and this administration, as they stand in silence, winking and nodding at this epic national security time bomb.
"The terrorist threat is exaggerated, yet it is not taken seriously."
-John Kerry
And if I remember correctly, many attackers came across from the Canadian side of the border.
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