Posted on 06/04/2002 4:42:35 PM PDT by mhking
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators believe they have identified a Kuwaiti lieutenant of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as the likely mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Tuesday.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, designated one of the FBI (news - web sites)'s most-wanted terrorists, is at large in Afghanistan (news - web sites) or nearby, the official told The Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
1.) Osama bin Laden
2.) Mulluh "One-Eye" Omar
3.) Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
4.) Yasser Ara... nevermind.
Note to self: Self, give Dubya a call in the morning. Let him know that you will take this guy off his hands and that not another American needs to worry about him again... EVER.
"My goat give me chubby!"
anonymity?? what no balls?
And here some of us are chomping at the bit to find a reason to bomb the sh*t out of Iraq...
My, my - how grateful the citizens are of the countries we've liberated. France also comes to mind... Has anyone started to get a clue that foreign intervention has only brought us more sorrow as a nation?
And to add to the insanity, our fearless "leaders" who have vowed to protect us from more terrorist attacks, insist that we remain members of the U.N., a global organization filled with other despotic towelheads who want nothing less than our destruction.
And what's up with us stepping into the middle of the Pakistan/India conflict? Isn't India doing its part to fight the "War on Terrorism" - just like Uncle W said? Why does he NOW have a problem with that? I'm sure playing peacemaker there will only give us more of the same. When will we learn?
This is how we do it...
Um, yeah. Whatever.
Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (I've selected a few paragraphs from the article)
Israels military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of the worlds foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the ailing Osama Bin Laden.The two men have not been seen for some time. Mughniyeh is probably the worlds most wanted outlaw. Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone plastic surgery and is unrecognisable. Zawahiri is thought to be based in Egypt. He could be Bin Ladens chief representative outside Afghanistan.
...Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it before. On April 12th 1997, he was reported to be only two hours away from achieving the highest goal of any terrorist organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al airliner above Tel Aviv...
..."Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh," says an Israeli who knows Mughniyeh . "The guy is a genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to understand. The killing of his two brothers by the Americans only inflamed his strong motivation." ...
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