Posted on 03/01/2006 5:11:41 PM PST by kristinn
Pakistani officials have told ABC News that they believe they have indications that a new terror attack is being planned there against the United States. They tell ABC News that while their intelligence does not give any specific details as to a target or time, it does indicate that the plans are being made by an emerging top al Qaeda figure.
Pakistani military officials say Matiur Rehman, 29, a Pakistani militant, is behind the new plans for an attack against the United States. Pakistan has posted a 10-million rupee (about $166,000) award for his capture.
"He is probably Pakistan's most wanted right now," says Alexis Debat, a former adviser in the French defense ministry and now an ABC News consultant. "He is extremely dangerous because of his role as the crucial interface between the brains of al Qaeda and its muscle, which is mainly composed these days of Pakistani militants."
Pakistani officials say Rehman helped train thousands of fellow Pakistani militants at al Qaeda training camps during the late 1990s.
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You took the words right off my keyboard.
Shouldn't assuuming that muslims are planning a terrorist attack on the US be just standard operating procedure?
Why treat them better than us?
I'm still using my Muqtada al-Sadr target. It gives me so much satisfaction and improves my aim greatly.
Are you still over there? If so, I'll pray for your safety as well as peace.
I sure am. It's going to take years of therapy and analysis to figure out why I keep coming back. ;-)
The prayers are genuinely appreciated. May the good Lord bless you as well.
I'm guessing that maybe you want your life to read like 'that book you just couldn't put down', but it could be the high fashion & the weather with a good bit of making a huge difference in the quality of people's lives mixed in.
Prayers up, that those who know you know peace, safety and salvation, and that you find new joys in every day.
Actually I was referring to fact that animals have no actual legal "rights" because they cannot negotiate with us.
In a related story, numerous Al Qaeda members dying daily at the hands of US and Ally Military.
The only thing new here since 9/11 is the 'have told ABC News' part. I guess ABC thinks that makes it NEW breaking news.
Wow. With an exchange rate like that, I bet they're all superstar math wizzes. Just think how high a kid would have to count to buy a Snickers bar.
over the weekend it was reported that Yale U officials said about recruiting the Taliban ..."we lost one already to Harvard and we'll not let that happen again...."
I would like to know what was the name of the terrorist recruited by Harvard...
beat bet...it don't matter to me
I'll give you the time and place to do it..LOL
over the weekend it was reported that Yale U officials said about recruiting the Taliban ..."we lost one already to Harvard and we'll not let that happen again...."
I would like to know what was the name of the terrorist recruited by Harvard...
That's one way to get his fellow muslims locked up.
That's what we're hoping for my FRiend.
How many muslims are islamist?
Posted on 08/11/2006 7:52:29 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News the FBI is investigating new leads that involve a possible connection between people in the United States, in major east coast cities, and the London bomb plotters.
In an interview with ABC News this morning, White House Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend said while there is currently no indication of any plotting in the United States, she confirmed, "There are leads that the FBI is running."
With at least five, and maybe more, suspects still at large, it is the missing plotters who are the greatest security concern. Among those still at large are some of the suspected ringleaders of the London plot.
Congressman Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told ABC News authorities are extremely concerned about the missing suspects. "They are on the loose," said King. "These are desperate, vicious people, who have a good degree of sophistication. And they're out there, if nothing else, they're available for future operations. The more deadly threat is that there is a plan B that they would be able to implement."
Intelligence officials tell ABC News the plot's trail leads directly to al Qaeda and to the Pakistani city of Karachi, where money for the plot was wired to London.
Officials say two of those arrested in London came to Karachi in the last few months for explosives training with known al Qaeda commanders.
The terrorists had planned to use a peroxide-based liquid explosive, dyed red, to appear as a sports drink. A $10 disposable flash camera was to be used as the detonating device.
Pakistani officials have made as many as nine arrests, but the suspected ringleader remains at large. Pakistani officials say this 29-year old al Qaeda commander, Matiur Rehman, was known to be planning a terror spectacular to mark the fifth anniversary of the 9/ll attacks, and some believe the London plot may have been it.
ABC News consultant Alexis Debat, a terrorism expert at the Nixon Center in Washington D.C., says, "[Rehman] is the interface between al Qaeda's leadership and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Pakistani militants who are able to provide the muscle for al Qaeda's operations not only in Pakistan but around the world."
Thanks. I'll be on the lookout tomorrow.
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