[Fish out of Water]

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[Recovering_Democrat]

No wonder Tony Blair is so eager to get rid of that walking pile of cow dung.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

let me guess, any calls to carrot top? or those morons on the 10-10-210 save a buck commercials?BWAHAHAHA

[tubebender]

Who do the satellites belong to that Benny Laden used for these calls? Was it the Iridiam (sp) system that the US Millitary bailed out?

[MizSterious]

Ping!

[VOA]

Bin Laden called UK 260 times

That we know of.

I can't help but wonder if bin Laden called any influential operatives to tell
them to tell the press "a renegade American is mailing the anthrax".

Of course, that wouldn't be necessary as the Clinton hold-overs at the FBI took care
of obsessively following that route of investigation.
Probably to the exclusion of all others.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yes, but he called anyone since 12/18/01?

[sharktrager]

He just had to make a bet when the odds for "bin Laden dead by Labor Day" reached 10-1.

[PhilDragoo]

Last week al Fagih, who has not been arrested or charged in connection with any of these actions, said: “I am willing to speak to the authorities if they ask me about this or any other issue, but not to the press.”

They're welcome to use my battery charger.

[July 4th]

Phone was probably a similar model to this. The briefcase models weren't around yet, and in 1996, the big dish models like we used in the Gulf War were on the way out.

[Catspaw]

Ordering ttake-out from Harrod's?

[eno_]

There is no way we do not have recordings of every call that ever transited Inmarsat's birds.

I'd be willing to say it is plausible that not every bin Laden call got translated and analyzed, but sat phones move a relatively puny quantity of bits copmared to the NSA's capabilities, and only big shots use them. We HAD to have some idea what bin Laden was planning.

Now what are the implications of THAT?

[livius]

Michelle Urquhart...had no idea why her phone number should crop up on Bin Laden’s sat-phone. “I have no ... recollection of a call being made to this property,” she said....

Betcha she knows perfectly well. The IRA is known to have trained with various Islamic radical groups, and I would suspect that Michelle has a little bit more going than she's talking about...

[browardchad]

London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia. This fundamentalist Muslim group is dedicated to the overthrow of the Saudi Arabian government but is not part of Al-Qaeda.

Well now it is officially linked to Al-Qaeda.

Are the people who wrote this story totally naive, or is it supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? All these amazing coincidences of people who received phone calls, and don't know a thing about it. Must have been wrong numbers, over and over again. Yup.

[hove]

Hmmmm. I wonder why Islamic terrorists would feel so cozy in the UK???

[Peter Libra]

London and England are no strangers to terror. One of the last public hangings was in 1868 of Fenians (Irish). They had planted bombs, killing innocent citizens. In 1910, Russian emigres, who had been given political asylum from Czarist persecution lived in London. they rewarded their protectors, by robbing a jewellery shop and killed three unarmed policemen.

The ones allegedly involved, were virtually executed, sumarily, by police at the siege of Sydney Street. Some years reviously, French anarchists were infiltrated and one was bought off.English working class men were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment when they made a bomb at his encouragement. This was called the Walsall conspiracy. The power of the cunning Scotland Yard and British police now seem hamstrung. Why?

The weapon that now protects the latter day terrorists is Political correctness and so-called anti-hate laws.

I have heard a Marxist Socialist litany proclaimed at a meeting of Family History enthusiasts (East of London FHS) ten years ago. Recently to my dismay ,I read on pages 1120-1, of a book: London, by an Edward Rutherfurd (Ballantyne Books 1998). As part of the book, he draws on almost exactly the litany repeated by a functionary, who lectured at that Romford meeting years ago.

It is to the effect that always London has had immigration(true). He compares Romans,Normans, Saxons, Jews, Irish as being quite the same as the "new" Londoners. The disturbing thing is that, even a novelist repeats almost word for word, that which some functionary of local government has put out. Never mind "Carry on London" - it should be b****y well "wake" up. These people are not Britons and never will be.

[SkyPilot]

Maybe he was trying to have someone fax him the Page 3 Girl.....................................

[denydenydeny]

Indexing for both.

[tracer]

Big deal. Since 9/11 OBL has called CNN more than 600 times -- collect......

[BlueAngel]

Bump!