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The particularly galling thing abut the al Qaeda 7 release of detainees was that the release included al Marri , and Al-Marri is a Qatari citizen who acted as a sleeper agent in Illinois for one or more planned follow-on attacks.
He’d been nabbed on credit card fraud among other things... but when searching his home the Feds took a very keen interest in a certain trunk that he had which earlier had been shipped to him from overseas.
The al Marris had also received in a shipment what they claimed were “seeds,” perhaps in this same trunk.
Al Marri’s boss was KSM.
KSM was the not very religious party animal who was captured in the home of a Pakistani bacteriologist named Qadoos... who was in turn associated with Qadeer Khan’s proliferation network.

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Second wave plot: [snip]....The 'Second Wave' attack planned by KSM, thwarted by the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, would have hijacked a jetliner and crashed it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the tallest building on the West Coast. Thiessen points out, "without enhanced interrogations, there could be a hole in the ground in Los Angeles to match the one in New York." But the impact would have been far worse than the physical devastation to L.A and the resultant thousands of casualties. The nation was reeling after 9/11, deadly anthrax was being delivered through the mail, the economy was in trouble. A follow-up attack on the West Coast would have meant that, potentially, no one was safe. The effect would have been devastating. ....[/snip]------------ Did 'enhanced interrogation' save Los Angeles? American Thinker ^ | April 21, 2009 | William Tate Posted on ‎4‎/‎22‎/‎2009‎ ‎2‎:‎32‎:‎59‎ ‎AM by 2ndDivisionVet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234983/posts

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al Marri was transferred to Qatar even though he hadn’t completed his term in federal prison.

From FOX :
In a 2007 speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in Connecticut, President George W. Bush acknowledged that al Marri was taken into federal custody because of the danger he posed to Americans.
“Our intelligence community believes (he) was training in poisons at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, and had been sent to the United States before September the 11th to serve as a sleeper agent ready for follow-on attacks,” Bush said. “Among the potential targets our intelligence community believes this al Qaeda operative discussed … were water reservoirs, the New York Stock Exchange and United States military academies such as this one.”
-— http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/20/al-qaeda-operative-freed-from-us-federal-prison.html