[TapTheSource]

Article speaks for itself--TTS

[piasa]

Dr. Novikov is a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation

Mr [Michael] Scheuer, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington... ------7/7 ‘mastermind’ is seized in Iraq The Times (U.K.) ^ | 04/28/07 | ean O’Neill, Tim Reid and Michael Evans

Now there's a familiar character.

[JasonC]

But alas for this pleasant "line up all the black hats" theory, it is all the purest speculation and wind. Its centerpiece, that they must have read all his documents because there are people in Russia who know Arabic, is simply ludicrous. Of course they have intel operatives who know Arabic. But did they assign a high priority to 3 random interlopers crossing the border from Azerbaijan without papers? Saying they must have is like saying anyone who passed through US customs must have been waterboarded to find all their secrets, and could only have continued activities approved by the government, so 9-11 must have been an inside job. Just silly. Governments are incompetent distributed entities, not unitary actors with the full capability of every expert on every subject at all times. There is precious little reason for the man to lie to his own laptop, either. Too thin, too thin.

[AdmSmith]

Blast from the past

John Schindler is writing about the connection between aQ and Russia/Soviet
http://20committee.com/2014/06/10/exploring-al-qaidas-russian-connection