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.
The sad part is that only 6 months later, most Americans think they are safe again. Fools. It's every man for himself.
Of course they will. They direct their prayers to a black chunk of stone now, so they'll just sweep up as much of the black stone powder as they can find and call it good.
So does any high school graduate. That's not the point. Did OBL die of radiation poisoning?
If the infidels can turn allah's moon god rock into a mile wide glowing crater, the myth of their all powerful allah also goes "poof".
I don't know if their islemming cult can survive that.
You are probably right. They are so eager to demolish the religious shrines of others...... makes one think they would very very spooked if their number one religious shrine was destroyed for a change. They are certainly up for such a rebuke going by the huge number of churches synagogues etc. they have torn down thru the ages and then built mosques on top of the ruins.....
For example, the Church of the Nativity is just a nice and historic church built over the top of where Christ may have been born. If the islemmings blow it up, it does not end Christianity.
Of course, the islemmings would like to wipe out every temple and church on earth.... to wipe out history.
Lemmings think they are swimming across a river, that's their mission.
Islemmings on the global jihad mission are charging right for the cliff IMHO.
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I predict this is going to go nuclear.
The Russians at least lived in a more or less rational world: MAD worked with both West and East.
MAD means nothing to insane death cultists. They will use nukes as soon as they get them.
My other thought: WATCH TAIWAN! When we "go for it" in Iraq, China is going to move while we are too busy to react.
If I was commander in chief I would have this designated as the default response. And would be a swift response without any searching for perps. Just do it. Even if it later turns out to be ChiCom operation I could care less. Am re-reading "Sum of All Fears" great book even if it is 10 years old. Tom Clancy really captures the atmosphere and the ways of the MidEast
Yeha, those Q-238 space modulators are rough.
You just have to look at Zang Jemin and his recent grand tour of the MidEast.
Hey ex I wasn't making fun of you! I understand COMPLETELY how you felt! After sitting in front of the TV all morning with our kids (homeschool consisted ENTIRELY of current events that day), Sir SuziQ and I started packing a bug-out box that's STILL ready in our basement, in case some yahoo decides to make some trouble in Boston! We'll have some supplies ready so we could hop in our car and be out of range of any nasty stuff within a half an hour, and not have to stop until we need to fill the tank! It's also the reason he decided to get a cell phone, so he's ALWAYS reachable in case of an emergency.
That's another reason we're holding off taking the kids to DC for a 'field trip'. We just don't know if someone has something planned for the Nation's Capitol, and we don't want to pick the wrong week to be there! We'll take them next year when we hope things have calmed down.
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Hate to say this but that's pitiful. You've been terrorized. Don't give in to these losers. They haven't anything more deadly to offer than a acned kid in Tampa and some bigfooted doofus from France. Over-rated losers with a very limited shelf life.
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