Posted on 09/18/2004 5:14:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: Pakistani authorities have reportedly discovered an al Qaeda memo that warns of suicide attackers using weapons of mass destruction on Americans in t he near future.
According to the Daily Times , Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin , an online subscription intelligence news service, says that these attacks will include the use of biological and chemical weapons, and that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, under heavy US pressure, has instructed his security and intelligence chiefs to focus on jihadi suicide volunteers because of this emerging threat.
Topping the memo's list stands the US, although European countries are also specified as preferred targets, says the report.
The memo details a number of ideas and options for attacking the West and related to it is a Spanish Interior Minister Antonio Alonzo's decision to assign close to 2,000 security agents to a training and deployment programme on the danger of nuclear, chemical and bacteriological terror attacks.
The Russians too have passed on information to the Pakistani intelligence and security service about possible terror attacks, which has contributed even more tension to the situation.
According to them, many of the so-called "Arab mujahideen" killed during the attack on the school in Beslan had visited Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan on several occasions.
Similar claims have come from Britain where law-enforcement agencies are still in the midst of their recent anti-terror operation that began last month.
I would say a recent Al Qaeda memo planning attacks on the US with WMD would be something worth mentioning.
I found another article with more detail in the Pakistani Daily Times, also referencing John Farrah's newsletter:
Pakistan said to have unearthed 9/11 style Al Qaeda memo
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: If suicide bombers come to America, they are likely to be carrying biological, chemical or nuclear weapons with them, according to an Al Qaeda memo discovered by Pakistani authorities, claims a report.
Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, an online subscription intelligence news service, says that Pakistan President Pervez Musharaf, under heavy American pressure, has once again instructed his security and intelligence chiefs to focus on jihadi suicide volunteers – this time because of a memo showing they will be used to carry weapons of mass destruction.
The report says, “The President, himself under the constant shadow of militants threatening to assassinate him, reacted to a coded memo discovered during a recent raid on pro-Al Qaeda activists in Karachi, by sharing parts of the memo’s alarming contents with friendly governments. Topping the memo’s list stands the US, although European countries are also specified as preferred targets. Unlike many other discoveries of terrorist documents, this memo has an added factor causing more than the usual concern.”
The memo details a number of ideas and options for attacking the West with WMDs by using suicide volunteers. Related to this memo is a Spanish decision, voiced by Interior Minister Antonio Alonzo, to assign close to 2,000 security agents to a training and deployment programme on the danger of nuclear, chemical and bacteriological terror attacks. Information from Russia passed on to the Pakistani intelligence and security service, following the disaster at the Beslan school, has contributed even more tension to the situation. The Russians claim many of the so-called “Arab mujahideen” killed during the attack on the school had visited Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan on several occasions. Similar claims and information came from the UK where law-enforcement agencies are still in the midst of their recent anti-terror operation that began last month. Several of those apprehended in the UK are of Pakistani origin with strong ties to anti-Musharaf forces.
The report quotes a “well-connected source in Islamabad” as having told Western diplomats that he captured document included phrases not immediately and correctly analysed. One such phrase says: “Aamaliat b’anika.” It was later learned that “b’anika” actually means “Panica,” or “panic,” and “Aamaliat” means “operation.” Experts on terror attempts to hit the US with WMDs further analysed the sentence and associated it to a 1968 Hollywood production titled “Panic in the City.” The movie describes in detail a terrorist plan to build a nuclear bomb by using easily available materials and working in the basement of a Los Angeles home. In the movie, an agent sacrifices his life to fly the bomb away from the city to the open ocean where it explodes, sparing Los Angeles.
The report also quotes “supporters of Osama Bin Laden” to have said on “numerous occasions” that their chief had studied over the years a variety of Western fictional material, and it is quite possible this movie was one of the Hollywood productions he actually viewed. In recent years, several TV and movie productions dealt with similar scenarios, such as in the TV series “24” and the movie titled “The Sum of All Fears.” According to the report, “Interest in suicide bombers who may be carrying WMDs has increased since the discovery of the memo and evidence of a possible Pakistani terrorist connection to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt. Western intelligence agencies are convinced Pakistan is now the No. 1 producer of jihadi suicide candidates and that many of Pakistan’s madrassas and militant mosques are hosting an ever-growing number of Muslim foreigners. The presence of non-Pakistanis in the militant milieu of many mosques and religious schools, mostly those near and in the Peshawar region, is a reason for major concern. Recently Pakistani mullahs and imams have begun to describe suicide attacks in India in terms such as ‘a three-year success story,’ making it clear to their disciples suicide bombings are a morale booster to the larger Muslim world.”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-9-2004_pg7_39
Why is it not in the MSM? Because it doesn't serve their political agenda--they do not want W reelected.
We need to seal the borders; Mush needs to turn the Madrassas inside out.
MSM was too busy dummying up their own memos to cover these actual memos.
*** Oops first posted that as a private reply..Sry
That's because the MSM > SeeBS only report fake memos
Duh. Our "ally againsy terror."
Methinks we got an idea where the Iraqi WMD's went to now, huh?
bttt
This brings to mind the movie "Toy Soldiers".
It was about narco-terrorists that hold a private school and it's students hostage in the U.S.The school is rigged with explosives,etc.
The Beslan attack made me think of the movie.
We are becoming the MSM.
Let's edit this a little...
If suicide bombers come to America, they are likely to meet Americans with assault weapons, ready and waiting for them, rather than cowering like sheep, thanks to the expiration of a bill which was put in place by America's 'internal enemies'.
Further, I think we knew and threatened him with total annilihilation, if he didn't give them up.
Bump
Well that rules out the Mexican border. Even if the terrorists could trek a hundred miles thru the desert (dragging a nuclear bomb?, keeping bios or chems in 110% heat) can they trust the coyote not to sell them out for the U.S. reward (after paying the coyote thousands of $s) or simply leaving them to die of thirst in the desert or killing them for their cargo? And even if they survive the desert and coyotes and xenophobe FReepers with nitescopes, since at least 10% of trekkers get caught by the U.S. Border Patrol, is it worth the risk?
Nuclear/chem? has to come by ship or truck/auto. The Mexican checkpoints are too secure because of anti-drug/laborers inspections. Land routs would have to be thru Canada. Nukes would be used near points of entry such as NY, Houston, Cleveland. Probably still in the shipping containers.
Biologicals could come by air. Free drinks in first class. Multiple terrorists carrying small amounts each.
Looks like Arizona, New Mexico, and Southwest Texas are the safest places with warm weather
I suspect any attacks will come before the elections, because they want to influence voters. If they tried it on election day that would defeat the purpose. I believe that many more Republicans would go to the polls after an attack than RATS.
BTTT
"more Republicans would go to the polls after an attack than RATS."
I agree with that completely, but I can't imagine the chaos that would ensue....
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