The (shoe) bomber from Bromley

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 12/26/2001 | DOMINIC KENNEDY, RICHARD FORD AND SAM LISTER

[solo gringo]

Hang him high with a short rope.

[Clinton's a rapist]

That's funny. I'm from Bromley (as is David Bowie, natch). One thing about the place is, it's full of shoe shops. I never could figure out how they could sell so many shoes on one high street. Strange place, Bromley.

[codeword]

Lots of interesting new detail here. But this is wrong, isn't it?

M Moussaoui...was prevented from joining the outrages only because he had been detained for behaving suspiciously at a flight school.

Wasn't Moussaoui being held on a visa violation while warnings from the flight school were ignored?

[FreedomPoster]

While he was at Brixton Mosque a fellow worshipper was Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan origin who lived in Brixton.

But we were told that this guy had no links to Al Queda!?

Nothing to see here, move along. < /sarcasm>

The government needs to get its fecal material organized, or those of us paying attention are going to lose all faith in their cluefulness and ability to wage war against the terrorists.

[meenie]

"We are going to have to have more intercept on the internet and communication systems. The FBI doesn't have the resources to fight terrorism with 19th century methods, etc".

Maybe they should detail one of their agents to read foreign newspapers. They have so many agents detailed to prevent their incompetence from becoming public knowledge, they don't have the manpower to investigate terrorism.

After the testimony in '93 that airliners were the next attempt to take down the WTC center and disregarding that plus the warnings from Israel prior to 9/11 show how ineffective the FBI is in fighting terrorism.

The episodes of the Keystone Cops come to mind when watching these clowns operate. When are they going to start getting their act together?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

When we remove all vestiges of the Clintons from the FBI, that is when we will be safer. When we have freepers in the FBI that is when we will be safer.

[ChadGore]

but . . .but . . . .but . . . This can't beeeeee, I thought Islam is love ?! < /sarcasm>

[codeword]

When we have freepers in the FBI that is when we will be safer.

Instead of arresting people, they would march up to them and say, "You, sir, are an a**hole! [idiot, fool, etc.]"

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

“He kept asking us: ‘Do you know where there is jihad which I can fight?'"
...
“He was an amiable, happy-go-lucky individual, always wanting to get involved in things and helping. He was very keen to learn the basics of Islam.”

ya think?

[Lent]

Interesting. I haven't heard one report in the "official" talking heads media or on North American rags about him being a Muslim. Is somebody sanitizing my news (/end stupid question)?

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I believe that the authorities were informed of his odd behavior at the flight school and, while checking him out, discovered the visa violation...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

No, no, no.

Islam is p e a c e

Kwanzaa is love.

[RickGee]

“He was a testing ground. If he had succeeded they would know this is a mechanism that works. If the plane had exploded there would have been very little trace of how that happened.”

People keep saying that it has never been done before (the shoe trick), but we don't know that.
There are at least a couple of airplane crashes which are unexplained aren't there?

[angkor]

looking for her son several months ago after he went to Pakistan and stopped communicating with his family

Now we know where he picked up the name "Tariq."

[EggsAckley]

accused of assaulting flight attendants

This statement bothers me. He's ONLY accused of assaulting flight attendants?
Not accused of intent to blow up an airliner??

[truth_seeker]

Britain seems to be a prime nest, for terrorist followers of the false prophet. They seem to not strike there, lest they ruin a good thing. It is about time that parliament and congress, pass some laws, to clamp down on these people, in their mosques, including the clerics who incite.

[codeword]

I believe that the authorities were informed of his odd behavior at the flight school and, while checking him out, discovered the visa violation...

No, here's the story:

Missed Opportunity: FBI Missed Moussaoui Importance; Source: ABCNEWS; Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 Author: By Brian Ross; Posted on 12/11/01 7:59 PM Pacific by JohnHuang2

Dec. 11 — The case of Zacarias Moussaoui represents a huge embarrassment for the FBI.

Moussaoui today became the first to be indicted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.

But not only was the French citizen in federal custody well before the hijackings, his alleged terrorist ties were revealed to the FBI the week before the suicide raids.

It was suspicious instructors at a Minnesota flight school who first tipped off the FBI in August about Moussaoui, who showed up with lots of cash and no flying skills.

FBI agents in the field were immediately convinced Moussaoui was up to no good. That's what they said when they interviewed people at another flight school Moussaoui attended in Oklahoma.

"They said he was trying to do something bad," the flight school instructor said.

A Fateful Decision

But lawyers at FBI headquarters turned down requests for a special wiretap to check Moussaoui's computer. And today the FBI director continued to defend the fateful decision not to authorize what's known as FISA warrant.

"The attorneys back at FBI determined that there was insufficient probable cause for a FISA, which appears to be an accurate decision," FBI Director Robert Mueller said.

But after Sept. 11, the FBI found Moussaoui's computer disks full of incriminating information, according to officials.

And on Sept. 5-6 in Paris, French intelligence officials reportedly revealed details of Moussaoui's background — including alleged ties to al Qaeda going back to his student days — to FBI and CIA agents.

"French intelligence claims they informed the FBI and CIA about Moussaoui's background," said former French defense official Alexis Debat.

But as was made clear today, one hand of the FBI didn't know what the other knew. And on Sept. 11, Moussaoui was sitting in a county jail in Minnesota.

Could any of this prevented the Sept. 11 attacks?

"Who can say?" Mueller said today.

[PoisedWoman]

“He doesn’t have the capacity to think: ‘I’m going to get these explosives, I know where to get these explosives from, I’ll put them in my shoe’.

He doesn't? How many IQ points does it take to think those deep thoughts?