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Al-Qaida nuke bomb threat alleged
msnbc ^ | 4/22/02

Posted on 04/22/2002 7:22:04 PM PDT by knak

NBC: Terror network seeks material to explode bomb in U.S.

WASHINGTON, April 22 — A captured key strategist for the al-Qaida network told interrogators Monday that al-Qaida was working to obtain fissionable material for radiation bombs to be exploded in the United States, NBC News has learned. U.S. officials could not confirm the assertions of the strategist, Abu Zubaydah, but said they were taking him at his word.

SOURCES TOLD NBC News that Zubaydah, believed to be one of the top lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, was cooperating with his interrogators. Officials said they did not know how to evaluate his information but were taking him seriously about bombs.

The officials said they would give Zubaydah’s information about al-Qaida’s quest for fissionable material the same consideration they gave a warning the U.S. government issued to banks Friday.

In that warning, the government said “unsubstantiated information” pointed to a possible terrorist threat against financial institutions. The FBI did not elaborate on that threat, but administration officials told NBC News that Zubaydah had revealed a possible plot to send suicide bombers into banks in the northeastern United States.

In the warning Monday, Zubaydah told U.S. investigators that al-Qaida operatives already had the knowledge to build the bomb, but he did not say that such a weapon had already been delivered to the United States, sources said.

Zubaydah is in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location. He is being treated for gunshot wounds he suffered when he was captured during a raid by Pakistani forces in Faisalabad on March 28.

Court testimony in the United States and in Jordan showed that Zubaydah effectively directed the so-called Millennium Plot, a plan to attack hotels and tourist sites in Jordan and at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Day 2000. He has been sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan.

He is also believed to have directed the deadly bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in that attack.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1999; 20000101; 200010; alqueda; bankplots; banks; dirtybombs; millenniumplot; newyears; nukes; usscole; wmd; yemen; zubaydah
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To: Travis McGee
OK, I have one composite made of your earlier photos but I don't have anywhere to post this thing... can anyone do it if I email it to ya?
101 posted on 04/24/2002 12:09:08 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Travis McGee
Doh !

I tried ......stay safe !

102 posted on 04/24/2002 12:18:06 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: Squantos
Nice shrooms: they the legal kind, the illegal kind, or the kind that'll kill you?
103 posted on 04/24/2002 12:21:35 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
Poor man's nuclear delivery system:


104 posted on 04/24/2002 12:24:34 AM PDT by Kerensky
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To: Kerensky
That'll work, and it doesn't even need to be nuclear.

One 40' container could contain a fertilizer and fuel bomb 20 times bigger than McVeigh's, packed into oderless steel drums.

The containers are offloaded by computer control and put onto trucks and trains and sent across America.

105 posted on 04/24/2002 12:28:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: Squantos
I've never seen so many morels as this year.They're thick where I am.Are you seeing more than ever or am I just lucky in my area?
106 posted on 04/24/2002 12:34:58 AM PDT by Free Trapper
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To: Travis McGee
Those are God's gift to mankind, legal and tasty as all get out! (Well, unless you are on federal land, state land, or historic sites of various sorts, and so long as the enviro-wackos don't ban morel hunting everywhere else on the theory that they are in lynx habitat or something.) I'm jealous, because I can't find the darn things down here in Florida.

Let's see if the picture thing works...


107 posted on 04/24/2002 12:40:09 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Travis McGee;Squantos
Travis,they'd only kill you if Squantos caught you in his mushroom patch but they are near good enough to die for.Fine eatin.
108 posted on 04/24/2002 12:45:10 AM PDT by Free Trapper
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To: Travis McGee
Let's try that again...


109 posted on 04/24/2002 12:51:25 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Travis McGee
Funny how something so commonplace could result in the end of civilization as we know it.


110 posted on 04/24/2002 12:57:31 AM PDT by Kerensky
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To: Kerensky
No kidding... a lot of those right here in Tampa!
111 posted on 04/24/2002 12:59:49 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Travis McGee
Interesting thread. I've mentioned to many folks the likelyhood that 9-11-01 may well be looked back upon as the beginning of WW III. If the U.S. does attack Iraq, it could very well start the whole ball rolling big-time. Unfriendly nations like China could certainly use that as an excuse and an opportunity to make it's own strategic miliary moves, and it would certainly give perceived vindication (and hence carte blanche) to the Muslim world for their aggression, not that they need any excuses.

My brother had an interesting idea -- use one of our boomers to launch missles at a good number of major Muslim-nation cities, loaded with leaflets that state in arabic (or whatever): "YOU LIVE AT OUR DISCRETION", a fact proven by the very mechanism used to deliver the message. Since we aren't dealing with rational creatures here, though, that might just make them go more apeshit. At which point, wipe them.

One question I immediately ask of anyone betraying sympathy for Islam -- "If they had our military capabilies and nuclear weapons, do you think for a second we would even be alive right now?". That usually ends the discussion before it starts.


112 posted on 04/24/2002 5:42:56 AM PDT by Joe Brower
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To: Travis McGee
Isn't that picture supposed to be...


113 posted on 04/24/2002 6:09:49 AM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
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To: 4ourprogeny
Dream on! Our multiculturalized country does not allow or give the president the consensus to take such drastic decisions

True but that doesn't mean it shouldn't happen!

114 posted on 04/24/2002 6:12:20 AM PDT by Mixer
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To: Travis McGee
#68 - hehe.
115 posted on 04/24/2002 6:16:51 AM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
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To: Travis McGee


116 posted on 04/24/2002 6:46:59 AM PDT by Registered
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To: Travis McGee
Morell's ....(leagal)..the best, wander into someones picking area you'd better be wearing yer kevlar undies.......trouble is they are too far from here for application to good panhandle beef.......

Stay Safe !

117 posted on 04/24/2002 7:06:22 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: Free Trapper ; Travis McGee
Seems we've encountered the same type of protective details in our quest for free Morell's FT :o)

As I told Travis I'm too far away these days from the free pickings. When I was stationed in Michigan for a few years I had some primo morell 's growing on my own property......

But then again theres nothing like having a professional security force to guard your mushroom patch for ya eh Travis :o)

Ya'll Stay Safe !

118 posted on 04/24/2002 7:12:56 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: PatrioticAmerican
On the right hand side of your photo... are those goalposts?

; )

119 posted on 04/24/2002 7:49:35 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Squantos
Prehistoric Americans hunted the elusive morel mushroom with these... morels were pretty big back then. Works well on terrorists, too.


120 posted on 04/24/2002 7:59:16 AM PDT by piasa
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