Bryan Preston looks at the latest example of US mainstream media disseminating the propaganda of Islamic terrorists: Lara Logan and her terrorist footage: It is too important to ignore.
If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the gist: CBS News reporter Lara Logan, currently the network’s correspondent in Baghdad, used clips in a story about fighting on Haifa Street in Baghdad that apparently came from a video that Al Qaeda’s media arm also used. In her story she didn’t attribute the video to Al Qaeda, but described it as “gruesome pictures obtained by CBS.”
They’re gruesome indeed, depicting slain Iraqi Army soldiers after the battle, and showing people walking around the room where the dead men are laying and even apparently picking through their uniforms.
In looking at both the Logan report and the video that Al Qaeda released after the January 7 battle, I’ve come to the conclusion that not only did Logan use the same video that Al Qaeda used, but that she worked from the same source tape as well. That means that in all likelihood her source and the source from which Al Qaeda obtained the video (which may be someone actually in AQ or merely connected to it) are one and the same.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24235&only&rss
Yemen probes whether al-Qaida behind killing of alleged informant
January 31, 2007
SAN'A, Yemen: Yemen has launched a probe into whether al-Qaida is behind the killing of a man who may have led security officials to an associate of Osama bin Laden, a Yemeni security official said on Wednesday.
Alsayed Ali al-Hajeri, a 50-year-old father of two, was stabbed and shot to death Tuesday night when masked gunmen broke into his home in an upscale suburb of the Yemeni capital, the official said. Al-Hajeri is believed by locals to have informed on Qaed Salim Sunian al-Harethi, an associate of bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terror network.
Al-Harethi died in a 2002 U.S. missile strike on terror suspects in Yemen, the United States first such operation outside Afghanistan against suspected al-Qaida members.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/31/africa/ME-GEN-Yemen-al-Qaida.php
A BUSINESS daily newspaper in the United States has stated that Al Qaida is setting up one of its cells in Trinidad. In its January 23 publication, Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) stated that Al Qaida has launched a movement to replace the democratically-elected Government. IBD said that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) are fearful that Trinidadian jihadists could train and export terrorists to strike the United States.
According to the newspaper, Trinidad might be harbouring the “next Mohammed Atta,” a college-educated English-speaking Saudi native known within Al Qaida as “Jafar the Pilot.” His real name was given as Adnan El Shukrijumah, and the FBI considers him “armed and dangerous.” He has been connected to Al Qaida plots to attack America with dirty bombs. The FBI’s website says Shukrijumah carries a Guyanese passport, but may attempt to enter the United States with a Trinidadian passport. His father is Guyanese, but he taught Arabic in mosques there and in Trinidad before moving to the US to work for the Saudi Embassy and then run a small radical mosque in Florida.
US authorities are worried that Caribbean blacks have been targeted by Al Qaida for Islmalic conversion and recruitment along with African-Americans.
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,51570.html
Police dismantle pipe bomb at investment company office
1/31/07
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A pipe bomb that arrived in an investment company's mail was dismantled without incident Wednesday, and federal authorities were helping investigate the case, the FBI said.
Police were called about 11 a.m. to a midtown office building housing some operations of American Century Investments and found the device in a package that had been opened by an employee, FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said. "It was a functional pipe bomb, and it contained a threat directed to American Century," Lanza said, declining to be more specific.
Officers from the Kansas City Police Department's bomb squad dismantled the device, and no one was injured, Lanza said. The site is a few blocks from American Century Investments' national headquarters building. Investigators from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service are working on the case, Lanza said.