Posted on 04/12/2005 11:13:26 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
WASHINGTON - Three suspected terrorists on Tuesday were indicted on charges that they targeted financial buildings in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., in a plot that prompted federal authorities to raise the terrorism threat assessment level in the area last summer.
A four-count indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses Dhiran Barot, Nadeem Tarmohammed and Qaisar Shaffi of scouting the New York Stock Exchange and Citicorp Building in New York, the Prudential Building in Newark, N.J., and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the District of Columbia. The three men, already in custody in England, were charged with three conspiracy counts and providing material support to terrorists.
Described as senior al-Qaida figure U.S. officials claim that Barot is a senior al-Qaida figure, known variously as Abu Eisa al-Hindi, Abu Musa al-Hindi and Issa al-Britani, who scouted the financial targets in the United States at the behest of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Prosecutors say the men conducted surveillance on the buildings between August 2000 and April 2001, including video surveillance in Manhattan around April 2001.
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Bumpity, bump!
Like the other terrorscum that has been caught, they can't be prosecuted because they didn't really do anything. The only hope is for the FBI to arrange an "accident" for these guys.
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Soooo, instead of being pro-active, you would rather wait until after "terror" is inflicted and the bodies are strewn about.... is that it? You obviously know very little when it comes to security and the terror threat. Listen to yourself.... you sound like the late Mort Kunstler. I suppose you thought OJ Simpson was innocent and that Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman... Ms. Lewinsky. Where there's smoke, there's usually fire. If people like you were calling the shots, many of us would be dead by now.
There seems to be no argument going on here, only empty accusations. So i'll leave everyone with this. Take it or leave it. It's entirely up to you:
Cicero’s Mistakes
1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
As far as you can now be concerned "people like me" (which in this case are deaf hermits who build their own laptops from spare parts from dumpsters outside of Dell computer shops) don't exist. There is only the above idea.
Damn! I was looking for that pic or a similar one and you beat me to it.
Not empty accusations at all, it's rational thinking. We KNOW that the MO for Al Qaida is to scout their targets and go through "dry runs" as was the case before 9/11/2001. We know that Mohommed Atta did this along with his cohorts. We also know that in order to prevent these incidents, we have to be vigilant in recognizing tendencies and acting on them. Yes, there will be a trial and there will be evidence introduced... and there will be a fair hearing. The primary objective is to disrupt and prevent a possible strike. The arrest in and of itself likely accomplishes this. If there was none pending, then these folks will walk. We are weighing "inconvenience" against terror. You and I both know that an arrest would never have been made if there wasn't any further evidence.... and officials are not going to release what they have until the disclosure process. The key to preventing terror is preemption, not reaction.
Maybe they don't even exist. Maybe this is all just a ploy by the Bush administration intended to convince us the Patriot Act and the War On Terror are working as planned.
Good Norweigian names, no doubt.... /s
Perhaps a public beheading?
Captured Al-Qaida Operative in Pakistan Leads to Additional Terror Arrests in the U.K.
Globalterroralert.com (8/5/04): Analysis of computers and documents seized during the capture of Pakistani Al-Qaida operative Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan has led to increased terror alerts both in the U.S. and the U.K., where British authorities have detained a dozen individuals suspected of plotting an imminent act of terrorism, perhaps directed at London's Heathrow International Airport. According to the British Daily Telegraph, Khan was in contact with a ringleader known as "Abu Eisa al-Hindi"(Dhiran Barot)--reputed to be "the head of Al-Qaida operations in Britain." It is likely that the pseudonym "Abu Eisa al-Hindi" refers to the same extremist leader who wrote the infamous jihad text, The Army of Madinah in Kashmir. According to that book, "Esa al-Hindi" was born in the U.K. as a Hindu, but later converted to Islam and fought alongside Muslim militants in Kashmir. After working as a combat trainer at a mujahideen terror camp in Afghanistan, al-Hindi moved to southern Thailand in 1998 and married a local woman there.
Maybe you should ask the Texas chapter founder of CAIR. WAIT!! He was just convicted yesterday on terrorism charges. They'll be running out of founders pretty quick at this rate. Here is a link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_re_us/hamas_trial_1
What were they going to do, poison the valut with poisons?
vault. Need to check my spelling sometimes.
I think Gava is on the wrong board.
DU is missing a poster.
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Everyone just ignore my earlier posts. 4/12 was a bad, irrational time. It was filled with drink.
Once again, religion of peace my ass.
Perhaps he's looking for the ACLU website forum.
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