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As for who Ohio resident Christopher Paul knew, Wadi al-Hage was the personal secretary to Bin Laden, not the personal pilot (so there is no indication Christopher Paul knew him) And it was a guy named Khalifa Lnu, not Nabil al-Marabh, that the indictment of Christopher Paul says he knew.
One addition re Ohio: he was also researching (in 2006) a remote controlled 5 foot helicopter (which is moderately interesting given his ownership of a remote controlled boat).
But turning back to Amerithrax, and in the general never-ending effort to ferret out additional mistakes or develop additional insights, these are questions I’m hoping to get answered (or mistakes needing correction).
Is Ayman’s codename Zabadi? (meaning Yogurt) Or is it Zubaidy? (named after the Iraqi inventor of an aerosol spray device).
Where is Mohammed Islambouli, subject of the December 4, 1998 PDB to President Clinton thought to be?
Was there anything on Atef’s computer that WSJ’s Alan Cullison gave the CIA? Or was it wiped clean.
Is Rauf Ahmad a microbiologist or an ecotoxicologist?
Why did the ISI stop cooperating with the CIA in early 2003 over Rauf Ahmad?
Was Al-Timimi a member of the Society for Applied Microbiologists?
What did the anthrax threat letter in January 2001 concerning Mahmoud Mahjoub’s bail hearing say?
Where was it mailed from?
What tweaking of the simulant prepared at a Wisconsin processor done at Dugway?
What is your view of the Gary Matsumoto “Science” article and ensuing debate?
What do you make of the Taliban’s Interest In the anthrax vaccine laboratory prior to 9/11.
What anthrax training did Muklis Yunos receive?
Whose laptop seized from Abdul Qadoos Khan’s home contained anthrax spraydrying documents?
Did those documents pre-date 9/11?
What did Ron Suskind mean when he said that “extremely virulent” (but unweaponized) anthrax was seized after Hambali’s interrogation? Do you credit that report (in “One Percent Solution”)
Do you credit the claim in 2007 upon the capture of Taliban spokesman there were anthrax packets intended for mailing to government officials seized?
When in October 2005 FBI Director Mueller told us in reference to the anthrax mailings to remember 9/11, remember Oklahoma City — what did he mean?
Why would Senators Leahy and Daschle been targeted?
Do you think the FBI profilers knew of the 1998 al Hayat letter bombs to DC and NYC?
Do you think the al Hayat letter bombs are useful in profiling modus operandi?
Have their been letters in the US containing ricin that bear on the Amerithrax analysis?
Do you think any code was used in the anthrax letters? If so, what?
Why was Princeton chose as the location of mailing?
What contaminant or poison did KSM plan to use to poison a reservoir?
Why wouldn’t dilution avoid the threat?
What was the chemical sought to be smuggled in the shipping container owned by Paracha’s company?
Who killed Ibn Khattab?
Did Ali Al-Timimi ever meet with pilots Hani or Nawaf?
Did pilot Nawaf ever meet with Moussaoui?
Did Moussaoui ever come to New Jersey? (on July 4, 2001 weekend)
Did Aafia know Ali Al-Timimi?
Did Marri know Al Al-Timimi?
Who was the Egyptian scientist researching anthrax in water supplies in July 2001 in Canton Ohio public library?
Did that Egyptian know al-Marabh? Was it Jaballah?
Why did they re-arrest Jaballah in August 2001?
Were the hoax letters to Judy Miller and Troxler sent from St. Petersburg related to Amerithrax?
Was the letter sent re Ayaad Assaad at Ft. Detrick (a coptic Christian) related to Amerithrax? (thought to have been sent by the anthrax perp(s)?
How many labs are thought to have had virulent anthrax strain?
With respect to what mathematical work for the Navy at SRA International have a high security clearance?
Is he known to have ever worked on a biodefense project?
Is he known to have ever taken a class from Dr. Alibek? Dr. Bailey? Serge Popov?
Article today on Al-Timimi and IANA -
“Behind the Indoctrination and Training of American Jihadis,” The Jamestown Foundation, August 6, 2007
http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=267
On July 26, [2007] a former Washington, DC cab driver and resident of Gwynn Oak, Maryland was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for providing material support to a terrorist group. Ohio-born Mahmud Faruq Brent, 32, admitted to attending training camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT, Army of the Pure) ..
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As disturbing as these cases are individually, collectively they demonstrate an even more troubling trend of radicalized American Muslims—bound by Salafi ideology—receiving training overseas and returning to the United States for potential future operations.
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In addition to his academic pursuits, al-Timimi was an Islamic teacher in the northern Virginia area. Yet, he was also involved with the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that receives funding from Saudis to promote Salafi Islam in the United States, especially in the prison system (http://www.iananet.org). Naturally, al-Timimi’s scholarly ties, more than anything, reveal his ideological proclivities. Establishing a center for Islamic education, al-Timimi contacted the well-known Egyptian-born Salafi Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq and translated his works into English. Abd al-Khaliq openly promoted the Salafi Islam prominent in the Gulf, and privately encouraged more militant Salafism among his followers, telling them that “American troops were legitimate targets of the jihad.”
Comment:
Both Al-Timimi and al-Khaliq are known for their work on women in islam.
But more pertinent to analysis is Al-Timimi’s lecture on “The Islamic Ruling on the Peace Process,” based on the writings of Shaykh ‘Abdur-Rahman Abdul-Khaliq.