Obscure al-Qaida Chemist Worries Experts
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - He's a mystery in a red beard, with a strange alias and a degree in chemical engineering. In the hands of this alleged al-Qaida operative, it's a specialty that summons visions of poison gas and mass terror.
Al-Qaida is "wedded to the spectacular," notes U.S. counterterrorism analyst Donald Van Duyn, and elusive Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi was said to be exploring such possibilities when last seen, brewing up deadly compounds and gassing dogs in Afghanistan.
Van Duyn's FBI and other U.S. agencies are interested enough in Mursi to have posted a $5 million reward this year for his capture. Egypt's government reportedly is interested enough to have seized and locked up his two sons in an effort to track down the father.
The U.S. reward poster says the alleged bombmaker, also known as Abu Khabab, literally "Father of the Trotting Horse," may be in Pakistan. But "we don't think there's really a good fix on where he is," Van Duyn said in a Washington interview.
Link for remainder of article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_s_chemist
Security forces believe that there are two Islamic cells in Spain
Fri, 02 Dec 2005, 08:31
The State Security Forces are on maximum alert. According to today’s El Mundo newspaper, the recent detention of men who are alleged to be linked to Al Qaeda and who were trying to exchange drugs for Goma 2 explosives, could have been related to what the Spanish Secret Service, the CNI, believe are two sleeping Islamist cells based in Logroño and Vitoria.
The security services think the groups could be merely waiting for instructions. The security services have called for a planned Islamic Centre not to be built in La Rioja.
© typicallyspanish.com
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_1149.shtml
I wonder if our government will call for Islamic Centers not to be built?
Thanks for posting that memory jogger Founding Father.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Al_Qaidas_Chemist.html
Saturday, December 3, 2005 · Last updated 2:25 p.m. PT
"Obscure al-Qaida chemist worries experts"
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- He's a mystery in a red beard, with a strange alias and a degree in chemical engineering. In the hands of this alleged al-Qaida operative, it's a specialty that summons visions of poison gas and mass terror.
Al-Qaida is "wedded to the spectacular," notes U.S. counterterrorism analyst Donald Van Duyn, and elusive Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi was said to be exploring such possibilities when last seen, brewing up deadly compounds and gassing dogs in Afghanistan."
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ON THE NET...
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Midhat_Mursi
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Abu+Khabab%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Midhat+Mursi%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0