Posted on 08/06/2004 3:03:20 PM PDT by Nexus
Pakistan chasing fresh leads on al-Qaeda hideouts
By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad, Rohit Jaggi in London, and Guy Dinmore in Washington
Published: August 6 2004 20:04 | Last updated: August 6 2004 20:04
Pakistan has uncovered fresh evidence as to where al-Qaeda leaders may be hiding along its border with Afghanistan, senior Pakistani officials said on Friday.
The information comes in part from the computer files of Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, alias Abu Talha, a young Pakistani computer engineer allegedly involved with running an email communication system for al-Qaeda leaders. It has led investigators to focus on at least three previously undetected sites. Initial Pakistani reconnaissance suggests that 50-70 heavily armed guards are at each location, indicating the likely presence of senior al-Qaeda figures.
Other sources of information used by Pakistani security have included Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa; a second African for whom the US has offered a reward of $5m; and at least 20 other members of al-Qaeda.
The boost in the hunt for senior al-Qaeda figures comes only days after the US warned of a terror threat to Washington and New York's financial centres. But it also came as the UK, which has in the past few days detained 13 men over terrorism allegations, warned against unnecessary alerts in a coded sideswipe at the US.
Some British counter-terrorism officials have claimed that information found on Mr Khan's computer was being used by the US and Pakistani authorities to boost their image. David Blunkett, British Home Secretary, said on Friday that the UK was still in the state of “heightened readiness” it had been in since late last year, but added: “There is also a difference between alerting the public to a specific threat and alarming people unnecessarily by passing on information indiscriminately. I think we have got the balance right.”
In Pakistan, officials said the investigation of the new leads was being treated quietly, after an embarrassing incident this year when General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, publicly announced that his troops had surrounded a location in the south Waziristan border region where high-value al-Qaeda targets were believed to be hiding.
Separately, Saudi authorities said another person they had arrested late on Thursday with Faris al-Zahrani, one of the kingdom's most wanted terrorist suspects, would not be named “for the sake of the [national] interest”.
It might be Fata Morgana
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF2/261.html
Osama was spotted in the back of Kerry/Edwards bus today.
Eating wendy's!
Your hindsight is exquisite.
How's your Monday morning quarterbacking?
LoL.
Shhhhhhhhhh!! . . . Let's keep this latest news under wraps, everybody. We don't want it to get out like last time!
That is something, but she hung up her lips in 2001.
I can almost see George Brett behind those hills.
It was during the 1979 All-Star Game in the Kingdome.
LOL!
Check out the wires. "babar ahmad", one of the British arestees, had US navy plans on his computer.
A Saudi Royal, a real biggie?
Saudi authorities said another person they had arrested ......would not be named “for the sake of the [national] interest”.
http://www.wesh.com/news/3623991/detail.html
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Prosecutors say a British man wanted by the U.S. had classified data on American vessels involved in operations against terrorist forces in Afghanistan.
Authorities say a Navy document was found on a floppy disk at Babar Ahmad's family home in London.
Authorities also found a compact disc with audio tracks praising Osama bin Laden.
The affidavit says the classified document detailed planned movements of a Navy battle group -- as well as the ships' vulnerability to attacks by small boats.
Federal prosecutors believe Ahmad was communicating with a U.S. Navy enlistee sympathetic to the jihad cause. Authorities have not named the man, though one prosecutor said the Navy "knows who he is and is taking appropriate precautions."
Ahmad was arrested in London earlier this week and made his first court appearance there Friday.
I heard about the Navy Plans also potential communication with a US Navy Sailor, but not recently IIRC.
Did you see this?
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/218/wash/Collision_between_Navy_carrier:.shtml
Here's what's interesting....they've effectively nailed a vulnerable time for a carrier especially in waters as crowded as the Gulf. Speaking of dry runs....
Or, they may have nuked us or India sparking WW3. Who is to say? All I know is that I like what is happening now and am not about to second guess everything that has come before.
Pakistan: U.S. blew undercover operation (NY Times blew double agent cover)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1186654/posts
In other words, we watched our little traitor communicate with Khan, that led us to the al qaeda communications hub in Pakistan, and from their we were able to score Ghalani, the al qaeda cell in Britain, and the top al qaeda bigwig in Saudi Arabia.
Classic intel operations by the book, U.S. style.
I *like* it!
5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Tick, Tock...
well everyone welcomes pakistan's crackdown on al qaeda.
but its equally vital to prevent this country from arming its nukes with missiles, considering it's support to terrorists
You don't realize what you are saying.
You are saying that pakis would have nuked india or the US, had we declared them a terrorist state back in 1993?
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