Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

FBI: Threatening Messages Found In Dulles Plane
http://www.nbc4.com/news/4793900/detail.html

From the article:
graffiti and threatening messages were found in the cargo hold

similar incident at Los Angeles International Airport

Not much more, couldn't post all due to copyright stuff.

Probably nothing. AQ doesn't give warnings right before an attack. This doesn't fit their MO.

Just a heads up folks.

Thank you crabbie, I'm glad your surgery went well and you're back here with us!!

Thank you a_d

Birthdays are like a new beginning!!!

Hi RR

Glad you made it back from there safely.

The last time I went to Vegas was about 5 years ago and I had the same feeling. It was so noisy, so crowded, so many bells and whistles that I almost couldn't stand it.

Many years ago we went there at least twice a year. Things were different then. The older hotels were still standing and the smaller casinos seemed to be a little less frantic.

Although, I would like to see the Bellagio and the Venetian.

I think it was the Riviera that had the bomb scare. Probably some disgruntled gambler phoned in the threat.
I wondered to myself when I heard that, how that old hotel is still there. I don't think they've imploded the old part yet.
But, my fear still remains for this city as far as attack is concerned because there are so many people congregated in one place. All it would take is one vehicle like in Egypt to crash through the lobby doors with explosives. I wonder if they have put in any deterrents for that, did you notice?

Saudi Arabia: Cradle of Islam and Al-Qaeda terror

Last Updated 2005-08-01 11:49:07
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=14160

Oil-rich kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, founded in 1932 by King
Abdul Aziz al-Saud.

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia, whose ruler King Fahd died on Monday, takes its
name from the Al-Saud dynasty that rules the birthplace of Islam, a
kingdom about four times the size of France with only one third of the
population.

AREA: 2,240,350 square kilometres (865,000 square miles)

GEOGRAPHY: Covers most of the Arabian peninsula, running to the Red Sea
in the west and the Gulf in the east. The kingdom also borders Jordan,
Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

POPULATION: 22.6 million people, including about six million
expatriates, according to a 2004 census, nearly all residing in the north and
centre. The Empty Quarter in the south is one of the world's most arid
deserts.

CAPITAL: Riyadh

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Arabic

RELIGION: Birthplace of Islam. The majority are Sunni Muslims. Shiites
make up about 10 percent of the indigenous population, and up to 60
percent of residents of the oil-rich Eastern Province, according to
unofficial estimates. Islam's two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, are in the
west of the kingdom.

HISTORY: Founded in 1932 by King Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who ruled until
his death in 1953. His son and successor, Saud bin Abdul Aziz, was
deposed in 1964 and replaced by Faisal bin Abdul Aziz. King Faisal modernised
Saudi Arabia before being assassinated in 1975 by a nephew. Crown
Prince Khaled was proclaimed sovereign, and his brother Prince Fahd crown
prince.

King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz reigned after the 1982 death of Khaled but due
to Fahd's ill health, Crown Prince Abdullah ran the country on a
day-to-day basis from 1995 onwards. After Fahd's death on August 1, Abdullah
was anointed his successor, with Defence Minister Prince Sultan named
Crown Prince.

Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the
United States which killed nearly 3,000 people, is the scion of one of
the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia, whose system is based on the
rigorous Wahhabi doctrine of Islam.

With 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers from Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh
government and population struggled to come to terms with the scale of the
scourge until bombs started going off inside the kingdom. Since the
first suicide bombing on May 12, 2003, when 35 people died, the government
has been galvanised into launching its own war on terror.

The wave of violence across the kingdom has killed 90 civilians and
more than 40 security personnel, in addition to 110 militants. Hundreds
more have been wounded in the campaign of shootings and bombings, many of
which targeted Westerners.

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: Hereditary monarchy. Former King Fahd announced
political reforms in March 1992 that included a basic statute of
government, based on Islamic law or sharia, which serves as a constitution,
and the 1993 establishment of a consultative council.

The council gradually grew from 60 to 150 members in 2005, by which
time Saudi Arabia held landmark municipal elections as part of cautious
reforms spearheaded by King Abdullah during his de facto rule. Women
remained excluded from both the council and the local polls.

NATURAL RESOURCES: The world's largest proven oil reserves -- 261.2
billion barrels or more than a quarter of the global total. Number one
producer of crude oil at around 9.5 million barrels per day. Viable
production capacity of 11 million bpd. Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said since
early 2005 that output capacity would be raised to 12.5 million bpd
within four years and that further hikes had been considered. He has also
said the OPEC kingpin could nearly double its crude reserves with an
additional 200 billion barrels.

Gas reserves estimated at 235 trillion cubic feet. Current gas
production is seven billion cubic feet a day.

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: Saudi Arabia posted a budget surplus of 26.14
billion dollars in 2004 thanks to high oil prices, after posting a
9.6-billion-dollar surplus in 2003. GDP reached 249 billion dollars in 2004,
up from around 215 billion dollars the previous year. Public debt of
660 billion riyals (176 billion dollars). Oil accounts for about 70
percent of government revenue.

ARMED FORCES: 140,000 men, according to the International Institute for
Strategic Studies. Another 75,000 serve in the National Guard, which
was commanded by Crown Prince Abdullah before his succession to the
throne.

MEMBERSHIPS: Arab League, United Nations, Organisation of the Islamic
Conference and Gulf Cooperation Council.

So even within the royal family there's a history of overthrow, assassination (an Arabic word, by the way), and general lack of reason, all in less than 100 years. The next few months could be very interesting.

SYRIA FACILITATES ARMS TRANSFERS TO HIZBULLAH

http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/august/08_02_2.html

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Syria continues to facilitate the transfer of
Iranian weapons to Hizbullah in Lebanon.

U.S. officials said that within days of Syria's military withdrawal
from Lebanon in late April an Iranian shipment of munitions, mortars and
anti-tank rockets reached Lebanon. The officials said the shipment was
flown by air to Damascus International Airport and taken by truck to
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

"Syria continues to be a foremost supporter and weapons supplier of
Hizbullah, a terrorist group active in Lebanon, and throughout the world,
that has been targeting and killing Americans and many others since the
early 1980s," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman of the House
subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, said.

Since May, several additional trucks believed laden with weapons were
tracked moving from Syria to the Bekaa Valley. In the Bekaa, the trucks
were unloaded by Hizbullah and taken to various bases in eastern and
southern Lebanon.

uslims Find Room to Grow in D.C.'s Outer Suburbs

By Nikita Stewart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 1, 2005; A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073101185.html

In the outer suburbs of Washington, long filled with Christian
churches, new and expanding Muslim mosques are changing the religious
landscape.

In Woodbridge, a $1.8 million mosque built to hold 1,000 worshipers
will open in January. Starting in October, Ellicott City Muslims will pray
in a new $2 million mosque large enough to accommodate almost 1,000
people. Mosques from Annapolis to Manassas are growing as Muslims who have
migrated to the outer suburbs seek places to worship near where they
live.

Some are moving into office buildings and homes -- even into some
former churches -- as Muslims establish informal houses of worship called
masjids . Close-by mosques are desirable for the Muslim faithful because
of the religion's ritual of five daily prayers and Friday prayer
services.

"It is difficult to commute for the prayers," said Farzad Darui,
manager of the 48-year-old Islamic Center of Washington, the first mosque in
the area built from the ground up.

The boom in exurban mosques has resulted from the migration of Muslims
to the outer suburbs, as followers of Islam -- just like other suburban
emigrants -- seek less-expensive housing and good schools.

"Like all other segments of society, there's a move to suburbia, and
Muslims are part of that movement," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for
the Council on American-Islamic Relations, based in Washington.

As those Muslims establish more mosques, more Muslims are drawn to the
area. About 300,000 Muslims live in the region that stretches from
Richmond to Baltimore, according to Islamic organizations. In metropolitan
Washington, the number of suburban residents who claimed ancestry from
a mostly Muslim country jumped 81 percent from 54,295 in 1990 to 98,084
in 2000, according to a 2003 study by the American Communities Project,
a Brown University project on population trends.

In the post-Sept. 11 world, it hasn't always been easy to incorporate
new mosques into suburbia. In some places, neighbors have been less than
welcoming, even suspicious of who might be inside praying. Vandals have
set fire to a mosque sign and spray-painted derogatory words on
buildings and a van owned by the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling,
which with 5,000 congregants is one of the largest mosques in the area.

In Howard County, there have been verbal attacks on Muslim women for
their covered heads.

But local Muslim leaders downplay such incidents as isolated. Dulles
Imam Mohamed Magid Ali said his congregation has successfully reached out
to the community through open houses and interfaith events that foster
understanding and tolerance.

For decades, the Islamic Center of Washington, with its distinctive
160-foot minaret on Massachusetts Avenue, was the center of Muslim worship
in the region. But in the early 1980s, a group of mostly Arab college
students moved out of the District to establish Dar Al Hijrah in Falls
Church, said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, also the mosque's director of
outreach programs.

By the early 1990s, immigrants as well as African American Muslims and
a second generation of Muslims, began trickling into the outer suburbs.

The new Woodbridge mosque, Dar-Alnoor, is a testament to the explosion
of the Muslim population there, said Adil Khan, a spokesman for the
Muslim Association of Virginia, a group of Woodbridge Muslims. After
Spanish, languages of Muslim-dominated countries -- Erdu, Arabic and Farsi
-- are the fastest-growing languages spoken at home by Prince William
County students.

When Adil Khan was in high school in Prince William in the 1990s, he
and a handful of other students formed a Muslim student association.

"There were, maybe, five of us," he said. "Now they have clubs with 30
to 40 members at Forest Park and Hylton [high schools]. Literally, it's
leaps and bounds."

The Muslim Association of Virginia began worshiping in homes in 1988.
Five years later, it turned a dilapidated, one-story house in the woods
off Route 234 into a masjid . Dar-Assalaam looks like any other old
house on the side of a country road, except for a sign written in Arabic
and dozens of cars that squeeze into a gravel parking lot for Friday
prayer services. Inside, congregants can cleanse themselves in a makeshift
shower before praying in a room with a teal and beige striped carpet
angled to face Mecca. In a corner of the room, women worship separately
from men, divided by a sheet draped between two partitions.

The accommodations are not ideal. The women should have their own room
in which to worship, mosque leaders say. The children attend Sunday
school in rented classrooms at a high school.

"This year, we're bigger than before," Amal Muhammed, 36, said after a
recent prayer service. "It's too small here. We need a bigger place."

After Dar-Alnoor, the new mosque, opens in January a few miles away,
Dar-Assalaam will remain open, just to give the congregation further room
to grow.

During a Friday prayer service at Dar-Assalaam, a few women sold boxed
lunches for $5 while two men peddled $35 tickets to a dinner at an
Alexandria hotel. Attendees pulled out checkbooks and cash to raise money
for Dar-Alnoor.

Constructing a mosque, even in a burgeoning Muslim community, is no
easy matter.

Because Islam outlaws borrowing money at interest, Muslim leaders said,
congregations can't rely on bank loans to pay construction costs.
Instead, they rely on fundraisers for the millions of dollars needed for
their houses of worship. For that reason, it takes about seven to 10 years
to build a mosque, local imams said.

It has taken the Woodbridge congregation even longer: 12 years, Rafi
Ahmed, president of the group, said.

Everyone donates, spurred by the Islamic doctrine, "Anybody who builds
a house for Allah in this life, Allah will build a house like it in
paradise," said Dar Al Hijrah's Abdul-Malik, who also serves as chairman
of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations, a regional group
that represents 40 mosques.

Organizers of Dar Al-Taqwa, the Ellicott City mosque being built to
accommodate an overflowing Muslim community, kept down costs for the $2
million building by using Muslim engineers and a contracting firm that
volunteered its time and services, said Imam Mahmoud Abdel-Hady.
Nevertheless, he said, the money had to come from Muslims in the area.

Building suburban mosques has also faced special challenges since the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and other incidents of terrorism in
Europe, Africa and elsewhere.

Area mosques have tried to educate non-Muslims that extremist views are
not a part of the religion of Islam. After the recent bombings in
London and Egypt, the Woodbridge mosque and a mosque in Manassas jointly
issued a statement condemning the incidents. "These actions are not
sanctioned, nor justified, in Islam," the statement read. Both mosques
promised to nurture "interfaith understanding and diversity" in Prince
William.

Yet connections between mosques and more militant elements of Islam
have been unsettling for some members of the public. The FBI found that
two of the Sept. 11 hijackers worshiped at Dar Al Hijrah in Falls Church
for a short time. And Ali Al-Timimi, a popular lecturer at the Center
for Islamic Information and Education in Falls Church, was recently
sentenced to life in prison for inciting a group of followers to train for
a violent jihad against the United States. The executive committee at
Dar Al Hijrah supported him and called the federal prosecution
overzealous.

In the Chicago suburbs, residents and public officials have used zoning
laws and traffic concerns to fight proposed mosques, said Abdul-Malik,
who traveled to Illinois to work with one of the new mosques.

"Their problem is not saving money [to build the mosque]. It's getting
a permit," he said.

A diverse population and outreach groups have helped quell uneasiness
in Northern Virginia, said John Steinbach, chairman of Unity in the
Community, a Prince William interfaith group founded in 1996 after several
racist incidents.

Still, suburban mosques in the Washington area tend to make a major
concession to non-Muslim neighbors: eliminating the traditional Adhan, or
call to prayer, which is usually chanted in Arabic outdoors over a
loudspeaker.

"It was part of the agreement. No noise," said Abdul-Malik.

Abdul-Malik said he hopes that mosques become as much of a part of the
suburban fabric as churches. It would be nice if suburban Muslims could
hear the call for prayer just as they do on Massachusetts Avenue in
Washington, he said.

"I'm laughing now," he said, speaking from a coffee shop near his
office in Falls Church as noontime chimes began ringing at a nearby church.
"I can hear the church bells coming from Columbia Pike. . . . One day
we will hear bells and the call for prayers. I believe that day is
coming."

Now that I am a "TM-trained Homeland Security Analyst",(LOL) I was on the lookout for bomb laden vehicle deterrents and other security measures. We stayed at the Mandalay Bay and the only time ID was required was for check in and to enter the pool area. There were some very heavy concrete planters at the entrances to both the hotel lobby and the casino entrance, but it would not be difficult for a determined person to drive a car into either place. We were up and down the "strip" and saw no "overt" security measures anywhere. I'm sure they were there, but we didn't see them. (Europe is a different story. Lots of "overtness" goin' on there)

I know "Loose lips sink ships", but I'm certain that those with a wish to do harm will learn nothing new from my post.

I think of it more like loose lips will force those who are unprepared to get their act together. The bad guys have all the ideas already.

FAKE PASSPORTS SOLD AT MOSQUE Mar 16 2003 [a few years old but very interesting what goes on in the mosques in London and I'm sure here as well]

One's in the name of bin Laden henchman

By Graham Johnson, Investigations Editor

A MUSLIM extremist is making fake passports to help fanatics sneak into Britain.

The scam exposes a huge hole in national security as fears grow of a terror attack in Britain.

Our investigator bought three phoney passports from a North African fundamentalist who boasts of supplying fake documents to fanatics.

One was even in the name of Midhat Mursi, Osama bin Laden's chemical weapons mastermind dubbed Dr Death and currently on the run from the FBI.

"Everybody comes to me for passports. I make passports and then go to the mosque to hand it to them."

Mekdaia, 29, "works" from a mosque at the Muslim Welfare House on London's Seven Sisters Road.

He uses the prayer room there - where he says worshippers are doused in alcohol-free Mujahadeen fighters' perfume before they pray - to cover his illicit trade in passports. [They do have a fascination with perfume, remember the 7-7 bombers bought many boxes of expensive perfume]

Sunday Mirror investigators first negotiated the sale of one counterfeit French passport as he put his shoes back on seconds after praying.

Mekdaia said: "I do a good job, my brother. Everybody comes and gives me a deposit, photo, first name and surname, date of birth, height and eye colour. Then tomorrow they come and take their passport. They say, 'Thank you, brother', and go away."

To the man in the street, Mekdaia looks like a well-to-do businessman sporting expensive designer casual clothes and tinted shades.

But he is a fanatical zealot who hates Britain and the USA and insists that he is going to Iraq to fight in the war against the West.

Our investigators told Mekdaia that Midhat Mursi was hiding out in the war-torn Islamic state of Chechnya and needed to travel to Britain.

Mursi, a leader in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement, is in the top 50 on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list with a five million dollar bounty on his head.

Before the fall of the Taliban, Egyptian-born Mursi ran al-Qaeda's chemical weapons programme near Jalalabad in Afghanistan. He made worldwide headlines last year after videotapes from the camp showed live puppies writhing in pain after being exposed to a chemical agent.

At the camp Mursi trained terrorists to deploy chemical weapons. His "pupils" included one man who was imprisoned in the US for a plot to bomb Los Angeles airport in 2000.

Mekdaia boasted how he also sells fake National Insurance cards so that illegal immigrants can work in the UK or claim benefits.

The bogus ID also helps terrorist cells blend into British society and open bank and credit card accounts.

Mekdaia, who conducted his shady conversations in French, Arabic and broken English, said: "I make fake National Insurance numbers. Sometimes the names on the cards, along with a number, I just make them up in my head. The card is original but the number is fake.

"I made three for Mohammed (another client) last week. Every week he comes and collects three or four with different names."

Our reporter told Mekdaia that we needed a fake passport to smuggle another muslim extremist into Britain from Germany.

He said: "He could travel here if he wants to. He can work here."

Looking from side to side, Mekdaia bragged that he had made passports for North Africans, Ghanaians and people from the Ivory Coast in Africa.

"They take the plane and come here without problems," he said. He explained how he switches the photographs from one passport to another and doctors details.

He grinned: "I take the picture out and put in another picture, put the plastic on and that's it."

Mekdaia - who says he learned to use a gun in Afghanistan in 1998 - introduced our investigator to an illegal immigrant called Hasman who came to the UK on one of Mekdaia's passports.

Hasman said: "Don't worry, he has made passports for everybody, even me.

"He makes you a passport and you could go to Canada on it, I swear. Look at mine. The passport name is not mine but the picture is me."

LINK

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12741018&method=full&siteid=106694

The Gov. is worried.

Food industry joins forces to fight terrorism

August 1, 2005

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/news-ng.asp?id=61643-food-industry-joins

01/08/2005 - A new collaboration between government and private
industry has been initiated in order to protect the nation's food supply from
terrorist threats.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has joined forces with the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to counter possible
instances of agroterrorism.

"Ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply is a top priority for
President Bush and USDA," said agriculture secretary Mike Johanns.

"This partnership demonstrates our commitment as government and the
private sector work together to protect our agricultural commodities from
terrorism. We look forward to working with our partners."

The announcement of the partnership comes after a report into
vulnerability of the US milk supply chain criticised the Food and Drug
Administration for not imposing stricter regulations on the food and drink
industry generally.

Around 10g of botulinum toxin released into central milk storage tanks
would be enough to poison almost half a million people, according a new
report by Yifan Liu and Lawrence Wein of Stanford University.

The report, which was quashed by US authorities, was released unchanged
last month.

The Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA) Initiative, as
it is called, supports President Bush's requirements directing the
government to work closely with states and industry to secure the nation's
food supply. Announced last week at the Food and Agriculture Sector
Coordinating Council meeting, four pilot visits will be conducted in
September and October.

The purpose of these visits is to assess and identify vulnerabilities
in the agriculture and food sectors.

"As one of the lead federal agencies charged with protecting our
nation's food supply, the FDA fully supports this initiative encouraging a
closer working relationship with our partners in federal and state
government, as well as the private sector to make the nation's food even
safer," said FDA Commissioner Dr. Lester Crawford.

"This partnership brings together all of the organizations that have
the best knowledge and abilities in safeguarding the food we eat starting
from the farm all the way to our kitchen tables."

Over the next year, teams of federal and state officials will travel to
all 50 states to meet with all sectors of the food chain. Together, the
federal, state and private industry partners will discuss security
issues from farm-to-table and consider ways to better protect our food
supply.

"We are pleased to participate in this important initiative to enhance
the overall security of our nation's food and agricultural
infrastructure," said Robert Stephan, Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure
Protection, US Department of Homeland Security.

"The health of our citizens and our economy depend on our ability to
conduct assessments, validate field information and provide guidance that
can be shared with our federal, state and local, tribal as well as
private sector partners."

These visits will help the federal partners better consider how states
and industry can protect the food supply, gain more information about
the food industry's protection needs and assist government and private
industry in refining its efforts including research and development
goals.

This effort is the second major joint initiative for the federal
partners. In May 2005, FBI, with the support of DHS, USDA and FDA hosted the
first ever International Symposium for Agrosecurity in Kansas City, Mo.

thanks,ffnj. hope your vacation was great.

it's great to be home.

Hello Zulubaby?

Thanks to SlowBoat407 for stepping back in time to 2001.
I found these documents online which I'll add to my 911 news page.

===

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.html
Presidential Daily Briefing
bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
August 6, 2001
Page 1 of 2
Declassified and Approved for Release: April 10, 2004

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb2.html
Presidential Daily Briefing
bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
August 6, 2001
Page 2 of 2
Declassified and Approved for Release: April 10, 2004

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=22406&name=Terrorists+may+be+financed+by+VAT+carousel+fraud

"Terrorists may be financed by VAT carousel fraud"
1 August 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BERLIN - German federal auditors have warned that Islamist terrorist groups are financing themselves with a scam unique to the European Union known as VAT carousel fraud, according to the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Sunday.

The secret warning said that the German state was practically powerless to stop the swindlers, and needed to set up a national tax squad to pursue them. Germany's taxes are collected locally by the 16 states."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200508\FOR20050801d.html

"Moscow Fumes Over Interview With Terrorist"
By Sergei Blagov
CNSNews.com Correspondent
August 01, 2005

Moscow (CNSNews.com) -

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Since Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed in March, Basayev has become the most wanted man in Russia, with a $10 million bounty on his head.

The terrorist leader is held responsible for some of the deadliest attacks the country has known.

During an ABC Nightline interview broadcast Thursday, Basayev admitted responsibility for a September 2004 raid on a school in Beslan, in which more than 340 people were killed, at least 172 of them children.

Basayev was interviewed by a Russian journalist at a hideout, apparently in Chechnya.

Chechen President Alu Alkhanov on Friday lashed out at "certain Western countries and their media," saying they adopted "double standards" on international terrorism.

The Foreign Ministry also summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires, Daniel Russell, to express indignation over the interview, arguing that airing it ran contrary to a U.N. Security Council resolution.

"The international community acknowledges Basayev as a terrorist, and he is included in the U.N. Security Council's list of terrorists, at the initiative of several countries including the U.S.," the ministry said in a statement.

It said a 2001 UNSC resolution, 1379, called on member states to "refrain from providing support in any form, active or passive, to organizations or individuals involved in acts of terrorism."

The State Department reaffirmed its stand that Basayev was a terrorist but said the television network had the constitutional right to carry an interview with him.

The U.S. government had no authority to prevent the network from carrying the interview, said spokesman Sean McCormack.

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms any act of terrorism, and we have said before, specifically with regard to the issue of Chechnya, that no cause can justify actions that take the lives, or risk the lives, of innocent civilians," he said."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454940/posts
"U.S. Warns Iran on Nuclear Threat"
CNN ^ | August 1, 2005
Posted on 08/01/2005 1:25:57 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative