[Alouette]

FYI

[DoctorMichael]

Yikes! If ever there was a clown that SHOULD get a Military Tribunal trial so he can dance-at-the-end-of-a-rope, THIS guy is IT!

[Cachelot]

Too close in detail not to be the same person, I think. Where has this character been, apart from that trip to Israel?

[Mixer]

No doubt in my mind. This guy was/is high level Al-Queda. Thank God we got him off the streets. I sure hope the FAA does not try to restrict people from vigilantism on planes. If they do I am sure many would ignore them anyway.

[Mixer]

BUMP!

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

WOW!

[RaceBannon]

It urges that the next target be the United Nations,

Gosh, do we thank them or fight???

[denydenydeny]

“If the striker is unable to enter the train station without being searched,” counsels the report, “it is then possible to strike the reception area because it can be entered without being searched and contains no less than 100 people.”

Islam is a religion of peace.

[Shermy]

“weapons used against you exist in your home, to entertain you, and to amuse your sons.”

Television. Shows and video games. Quite astute.

[Jeff Gordon]

I am glad that it was the WSJ that acquired these disks rather some government agency like the FBI, especially the FBI.

They probably would have seen the encryption, figured there was no chance of breaking and threw the disks into the trash. If they had managed to crack the encryptions the information would be lost in the bureaucracy. They would certainly have not admitted that there were 170 operatives that were unknown to them. They might have even surprised that information to cover someone's butt. I wonder if anyone in Law Enforcement is even taking note of those surveillances of the night clubs along the US/Canada boarder.

In case you can not tell, I have become very cynical about our abilities and motives of those responsible for our internal security, especially the FBI. I do not know if Bush will ever be able to purge the eight years Clinton munging.

[Fred Mertz]

A separate, undated document stored on the Kabul desktop computer outlines a planned scouting trip to the U.S.-Canada border, by someone it calls Abu Bakr al-Albani. A summary of his tasks includes scoping out nightclubs frequented by U.S. servicemen.

I'm not sure what bases are near the U.S. - Canadian border. I would guess they would likely be Air Force ones like they used to have in Plattsburgh, NY before Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Committee shut it down.

Also, would we assume they have cells North of the border for these planned attacks? That would be my assumption.

This is another super investigative piece from the WSJ. Bravo!

[BrooklynGOP]

Flew from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv on Israeli airline El Al after being searched and grilled by airline officials. Shoes examined by security. He was seated in the back of the plane near a sky marshal.

Flew El Al from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv after he was searched and questioned for 90 minutes. Shoe examined by security. Seated at rear after flight attendants reshuffled seating around him.

Looks like profiling works.

[MizSterious]

Absolutely superb post: thank you very much for posting this info. WSJ did an excellent job here.

[rolling_stone]

First there was money laundering, now passport laundering...what's next?

[thucydides]

But didn't the "mainstream" media rush to assure us that there was no evidence that Reid was connected to Al Qaeda? That he was a lone bumbler? Perhaps a mental case?

[copyfight]

Excellent journalism. I just hope that someone there at WSJ is familiar with forensic techniques to extract the "deleted" files. Even if the file is wiped and the FAT is scrambled, advanced magnetic and digital techniques exist to extract all of the files that people thought were erased.

[demkicker]

Don't have time to read all of this now, but am bookmarking it for later. The only thing I'm worried about is WHY in the world did we deliberately fly him to Massachusetts? Won't he be standing trial in that God fosaken puke of a liberal state?

[Robert357]

After reading this, I think that life in a US prison is too good from Mr. Reid! After he is tried in the US we should deport him to either Egypt or Israel and let them try and execute him.

[Orion78]

The report of the target-spotting tour shows how members encoded their lives as well as their messages, wrapping even the mundane in subterfuge. It notes approvingly that “Abdul Ra’uff” took care to conceal his puritanical Islamic faith during a 10-day stay in the Netherlands. “At the hotel he would take empty alcohol bottles from the street and put them into trash containers in his room,” it says. He scavenged cigarette butts from adjacent rooms and dumped them in his own ashtray.

Sounds like he was worried about DNA tests.