Al-Qaeda Targets Lethal Disease Research Facility on NY Island

International Analyst Network ^ | Sept. 24, 2008 | Annie Jacobsen

[FocusNexus]

Until her arrest in Afghanistan this summer, Aafia Siddiqui was the FBI's most wanted woman in the world. Now the U.S.-educated, Pakistani mother of three is being held in New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center facing attempted murder charges.

Aafia Siddiqui holds biology and neuroscience degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and Brandeis University. In 2003, she vanished from Pakistan and reappeared on July 17, 2008, outside the governor's compound in Ghazni, Afghanistan. According to the FBI indictment against her, Siddiqui was carrying "various documents, various chemicals, and a computer thumb drive."

Aafia Siddiqui is believed to be an al-Qaeda operative. Among the documents in her possession were handwritten notes referring to a "mass-casualty attack" listing locations commonly known to be targets: Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building. But one target, Plum Island, remains virtually unknown to the American public. If Siddiqui really is an al-Qaeda operative, the consideration that this government facility (officially known as the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center) is a target is unnerving.

[wtc911]

But one target, Plum Island, remains virtually unknown to the American public.

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As long as one ignores the best selling book of the same name.

[NoLibZone]

Any effort on the part of the government to protect that city is viewed by them as police state encroachment.

[09Patriot]

Is it a thriller or a mystery?

[wtc911]

A mystery/thriller by Nelson DeMille. It wasa best seller for months.

[MarkL]

Isn't "Plum Island" the place mentioned in the movie "Silence of the Lambs" where Jodie Foster tried to trick Hannibal Lector into a deal? AKA "Anthrax Island?"

Mark