Posted on 08/18/2007 7:16:52 PM PDT by Isara
Michael Curtis Reynolds, the Wilkes-Barre drifter who is looking for al-Qaeda funding to help him blow up the trans-Alaska and transcontinental pipelines, is now on Shannen Rossmiller's radar.
Conspicuous as a barroom braggart, Reynolds is writing boldly - and in English - in the all-Arabic Osama bin Laden Crew chat room, making no pretense about his background or his mission: He's an American citizen out to destroy his country.
Just like Ryan Anderson, Rossmiller says to herself, recalling another angry American, from 2003. Oh, please don't let him be another one like that.
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Having ensnared Anderson in an exchange of 30 e-mail messages over four months, Rossmiller is seeing firsthand the reach and power of her late-night cybersleuthing.
It should be a day for champagne. But Rossmiller is reeling. And the bad news continues.
"The newspapers and TV stations started calling at 1:03 this afternoon," Randy informs his wife. "I happened to look at the clock."
By the end of the day, 45 news organizations have called. And about 45 more will ring in the next day.
Rossmiller is enraged.
Before the court-martial began, Rossmiller had tried to persuade the Army to preclude her from testifying in open court, so her identity could remain secret. The Army said no.
Then she asked that her online pseudonym not be revealed. But somehow it makes its way into the media.
And suddenly terrorist cyberspace is apprised of the invented persona she used to communicate with Anderson.
Shannen Rossmiller, aka khadija1417@hotmail.com, has been outed.
Rossmiller and her husband think it's retribution for disagreements Rossmiller had with the Army during the court-martial.
Prosecutors for whom Rossmiller was testifying, she says, requested all the files she created in her terrorist hunt, tens of thousands of documents she says had nothing to do with Anderson. She refused.
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(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Marking to read later—thanks for posting these, Isara.
She is amazing. We owe her a lot. Thank you, Ms. Rossmiller.
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