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Al Qaida Assassination plot
Drudge Report ^ | 8/10/2004 | Drudgereport

Posted on 08/10/2004 8:41:27 PM PDT by Keith

Gertz to break story in W Times...


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KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; assassinationplot; assassinationplots; billgertz; muhammadkhan; waronterror; wot
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To: John Jorsett

You got it. Good post!


181 posted on 08/10/2004 9:38:12 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ConservativeMan55

FWIW, they killed the Afghan Northern Alliance leader, Mossad, on September 10, 2001. Just something to keep in mind as we try to figure out what they are up to.


182 posted on 08/10/2004 9:38:14 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("Hold on to your hats.....it's going to be a bumpy night")
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To: aviator
If the planning is down to the "screwdriver level" then they ought to know who is the target.

An assassination utilizing a screwdriver does not seem to be very high tech or imaginative. Jeff Head could easily think of a better plot.

183 posted on 08/10/2004 9:38:24 PM PDT by steve86
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To: 1066AD

Don't know- I downloaded it but haven't had the time to read much of it. what I have read is nothing new relative to what we've already known, though.


184 posted on 08/10/2004 9:39:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: texasbluebell; All

while we are waiting, here's a little distraction:

"Mike Wallace is certainly no stranger to controversy. He was in the center of it Tuesday when he was reportedly handcuffed and hauled away by peace officers with the Taxi and Limousine Commission who claimed they had no choice but to arrest him.

It happened outside of "Luke's" Bar and Grill on 79th Street and Third Avenue. We're told Mike Wallace went there to pick up a takeout dinner, when his driver was stopped by TLC inspectors for double parking.

A spokesperson for the TLC says when the two inspectors tried see if there were any other violation, things quickly got heated.

One police officer reportedly said he thought Wallace was going to lunge at the other inspector, so he handcuffed the 86-year-old journalist and hauled him off to a police precinct where he was issued a summons for disorderly conduct.

Ernesto Cavalli, Witness: "He is 86 years old. The poor guy can not... the inspector can say what he wants. It is a lie. It is a lie. Plain and simple. I saw the whole thing. If I have to, I will be a witness."

Diane Dawson, Witness: "They threw him in cuffs. There were policemen and, i mean, it was unbelievable. It was appalling. He didn't do anything."

The TLC reports the police officers did not know they were arresting a celebrity and treated Wallace no better or worse than anyone else. It says they were only doing their job.

Wallace is apparently a regular here. The owner of Luke's tells me Wallace called him after the incident to say he was home enjoying the meatloaf dinner he had come here to pick up hours earlier. "

link from drudge...



185 posted on 08/10/2004 9:39:23 PM PDT by bitt
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

What a morbid and terrible subject! When you think about it, though, what you would want to do was make the candidate you wanted in an object of sympathy. Remember when Carnahan got in?

I would be concerned about the immediate family of the Democratic candidates, because that would garner an incredible sympathy vote, and, ahem, at least one Democratic candidate family member has proven to be sort of a liability - I don't think I have to give a name here.


186 posted on 08/10/2004 9:40:19 PM PDT by I still care (Have you heard about the Democrat cocktail? It's ketchup with a chaser.)
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To: PhiKapMom

Adding 2+2 -- I was thinking about the same thing.


187 posted on 08/10/2004 9:40:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: Dolphy

Remember the proposed TIPS program? The one where UPS/Fed-Ex or other delivery types, plus other professions, were going to be askd to report suspicious activity. That's a 'neighborhood watch program', only different, because it' would have been conducted by people that didn't live in the neighborhoods that they would have been reporting on.


188 posted on 08/10/2004 9:40:46 PM PDT by homer777
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To: Mo1
My guess is it's planned out so well, that they probably had such steps as "tighten screw A with a phillips head screwdriver. See also figure 3C"...

That kind of planning

189 posted on 08/10/2004 9:40:54 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Nobody But Bush | Kerry/Edwards: Re-inventing the we'll)
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To: Tarheel
Wondering if it might be someone attending the Olympics in Athens.

41 is there already. The twins and Barbara are there too

They better not even think about hurting those 4!!!

190 posted on 08/10/2004 9:40:55 PM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: Mo1

Is it a metric screwdriver? Gotta know!


191 posted on 08/10/2004 9:41:54 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (You get more with a gun and a smile than just a smile itself!)
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To: GeronL

Reuters has the story up.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040811/ts_nm/security_qaeda_report_dc


192 posted on 08/10/2004 9:42:24 PM PDT by mimmson (www.nationalterroralert.com)
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To: bitt
The TLC reports the police officers did not know they were arresting a celebrity and treated Wallace no better or worse than anyone else. It says they were only doing their job.

Good. Treat everyone the same. That's the way it should be.

193 posted on 08/10/2004 9:42:35 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: inkling
To: Keith

An actual news story featured right now on Drudge Report: "Comedy 'I'm Gonna Kill the President!' to Play Somewhere in NYC during Republican convention... "

The libs are one sick group.

156 posted on 08/10/2004 9:24:39 PM PDT by inkling

Would it be ironic if they choked on their popcorn?

194 posted on 08/10/2004 9:43:16 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: bitt

I need diversions these days...thanks for the rest of that story.


195 posted on 08/10/2004 9:44:10 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: mimmson

This is the same story that ABC ran earlier in the evening.


196 posted on 08/10/2004 9:44:35 PM PDT by Tarheel (Basketball and barbeque--just love The Old North State!)
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To: fooman

I can't name a single likeable Dem, aside from "Give 'Em Hell" Zell Miller. Having said that, and the likelihood the AQ terrorists plan to strike 60 days before this year's election, that puts the date at 9/2/2004, the same day Bush speaks at the RNC Convention. The same place Zell Miller will be.


197 posted on 08/10/2004 9:45:00 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Nobody But Bush | Kerry/Edwards: Re-inventing the we'll)
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To: aviator
If the planning is down to the "screwdriver level" then they ought to know who is the target

They might, but they ain't going to let that out and tip off the terrorists.... LOL.. kidding...

198 posted on 08/10/2004 9:45:06 PM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: mimmson
Planning for the attacks to follow involves "multiple targets in multiple venues" across the United States, one official was quoted as saying.

"The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election," the official told the newspaper.

199 posted on 08/10/2004 9:45:23 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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REUTERS:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10162470.htm

Al Qaeda plans include assassination plot - report
11 Aug 2004 03:49:32 GMT

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A high-profile political assassination, triggered by a new message from Osama bin Laden, will lead off the next major al Qaeda attack, The Washington Times reported in Wednesday editions, citing U.S. intelligence officials.

U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports, speaking on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the assassination plan was among new details of al Qaeda plots and would target a U.S. or foreign leader either in the United States or abroad, according to the newspaper.

Planning for the attacks to follow involves "multiple targets in multiple venues" across the United States, one official was quoted as saying.

"The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election," the official told the newspaper.

The officials said there are intelligence reports, some of them sketchy, that a new tape from bin Laden would surface soon, the newspaper reported.

"The message likely will be the signal for the attack to be launched," one official said.

A second U.S. official was cited as saying that one intelligence agency was aware of unconfirmed reports of a new bin Laden tape.

"There may be such a tape, but it hasn't surfaced and we haven't seen it," the newspaper quoted the official as saying.

The Washington Times reported that the plot was among detailed al Qaeda plans found on a laptop computer belonging to captured al Qaeda suspect Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan.

Information from Khan, a computer expert, prompted the United States to issue a new security alert for financial institutions in Washington, New York and New Jersey and led to the arrest of a dozen al Qaeda suspects in Britain.

Khan's capture was part of a Pakistani crackdown, which began a month ago and has dealt al Qaeda a major blow.


200 posted on 08/10/2004 9:45:30 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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