Posted on 08/04/2004 12:02:05 AM PDT by Gucho
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The man arrested in Pakistan with documents that sparked this week's increased threat levels is a computer expert who helped Osama bin Laden communicate with his terror network, U.S. government sources told CNN. U.S. officials have identified the suspect as Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, but Pakistani officials said the man's identity could not be confirmed because he has used multiple aliases in the past. U.S. sources said Khan told interrogators al Qaeda uses Web sites and e-mail addresses in Turkey, Nigeria and tribal areas of Pakistan to pass messages among themselves. Couriers were often used to deliver computer discs, and Khan would then post the messages on Web sites, but only briefly, the sources said. According to the sources, after messages were sent and read, the files were deleted. E-mail addresses were used only two or three times; if the information was really sensitive, an address might be used only once. It was Khan's capture on July 13 that resulted in a wealth of information about al Qaeda and led to Sunday's raising of the terror threat level around key U.S. financial institutions in three cities. The U.S. sources said Khan assisted in the evaluation of potential targets and served as a "clearing house" of information. He told investigators that he does not know where bin Laden is hiding, the sources said. The sources said Khan's father facilitated a lot of his international travel, but they do not think the father knew what his son was up to. Intel possibly updated recently Much of the surveillance of possible terror targets in New York, Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., took place before September 11, 2001, but there was an indication of reconnaissance updates as recently as January, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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They must be the people who keep sending me Viagra ads.
Well, that's good enough for me.
It definitely sounds like we're getting closer to nabbing him. It would be oh so sweet if we saw GWB hold his head up at the RNC and say, "Michael Moore, this one's for you."
What would be cooler than cool - Bush wins the election by 10 points and then announces the next day that he captured Osama 2 weeks ago, but didn't want to politicize it.
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