Posted on 08/02/2004 8:10:15 PM PDT by Pikamax
Al Qaeda Arrest In June Opened Valuable Leads
By Kamran Khan Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, August 3, 2004; Page A01
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug. 2 -- The arrest of a senior al Qaeda operative in June and his subsequent interrogation enabled U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agents to gather documents, e-mail addresses and cell-phone text messages that suggested al Qaeda planned to strike targets in New York and Washington, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
The al Qaeda operative, Musaad Aruchi, was arrested here on June 12 by Pakistani paramilitary forces in an operation supervised by the CIA, officials said. According to a senior Pakistani intelligence official involved in the early interrogation of the suspect, Aruchi "was sure that al Qaeda would hit New York or Washington pretty soon."
"He had with him street maps of New York City without the front cover, and addresses of some other important buildings," the official said. "There were some data CDs also recovered from him."
Pakistani officials said Aruchi's capture had led to other important arrests, including the raid last week in the city of Gujrat that netted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Looks like we're going to have dueling 'scoops' between the NY Times saying old intelligence and the WaPost saying new capture gave urgency to NY & DC warnings.
Maybe the dispute will grow into a huge debate that keeps the American electorate focused on terrorism. Seems like the same thing happened in 2002.
An earlier article posted on FR claims that this info was years old. Guess this will put THAT to rest.
Good Show!
You mean the NYT misled us?..I'm shocked, shocked!
"Aruchi as a nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammad"...and " also a cousin of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef"
LOL
That article from the NYT also has a telling paragraph in it that says some of the info was updated in Jan. 2004.
So not all of it was old.
I always wonder about these goobers that get captured and start to sing immediately. I know, 12 volt batteries with jumper cables attached to their boys in an undisclosed location and all that. But these snakes lie coming out of the womb, why would they not lie in the most critical moment of their life? Cowards, perhaps. But say what you may about these a*sh*les, they have principle, demonic as it is. I just can't picture them laying a gold lined path for investigators to follow.
little by little we're rolling these clowns up. Hopefully we get the big tuna by November.
Well at least in this case, we found a lot of the info on his computer...
fyi..
BUILDING PLOT AN INSIDE JOB (Al Qaeda moles in Citibank, Prudential offices)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1183957/posts
The counterintel folks are very well trained to determine what info is legit and what is bogus. They don't just take these evil cowards' stories at face value.
The officials said that two other suspects arrested with Ghailani, earlier thought to be insignificant, had provided information showing that Ghailani was expecting important news from the United States. Pakistani and U.S. officials are still trying to establish the nationalities of the two suspects.
An al Qaeda operative captured several weeks ago by Pakistani security forces, Abu Talaha, was described as one of the key sources of the documentary information on surveillance in the United States, according to a senior American intelligence official. Talaha remains in Pakistani custody, the official said.
Foopie was was expecting news from the US.......not good.
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