Update since al Marri made the news today after being so quiet so long...
FEBRUARY 2003 : (SAUDI ARABIAN GOVERNMENT ISSUES PASSPORTS TO AL-MARRI’S WIFE AND CHILDREN AGAINST US STATE DEPT REQUEST-— ILLINOISCELL) In February, authorities said, the Saudi Arabian government ignored a State Department request and issued passports to Al-Marri’s wife and five children. They have since left the United States. Authorities said - “Terror suspect named as ‘enemy combatant,’ By Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, Published June 24, 2003
2003 early : (AL MARRI FAMILY LEAVES THE U.S.A.-— ILLINOISCELL)</b> They left the country about a year later after living near the Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. .-—— “ Ex-Peorian Remains Jailed As An Enemy Combatant,” by ANDY KRAVETZ, PJStar.com, 9/8/06
MARCH 1, 2003 : (KSM IS CAPTURED IN THE HOME OF BACTERIOLOGIST ABDUL QADOOS KHAN- KSM SPILLS THE BEANS ABOUT AL MARRI BEING A SLEEPER AGENT - See ILLINOISCELL, ANTHRAX) I located that Newsweek article, dated June 16, 2003. In it are admissions made by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), al-Qaida’s director of global operations, after his capture on March 1, 2003. KSM reportedly has revealed al-Qaida recruiting techniques. “Using ‘mosques, prisons and universities throughout the United States,’ according to [intelligence] documents, KSM reached deep into the heartland, lining up agents in Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, and Peoria, Ill,” said Newsweek. “The Feds have uncovered at least one KSM-run cell that could have done grave damage to the United States.” The cell’s location was not named.
About al-Marri, Newsweek reported:
“During his interrogation, KSM identified a man named Ali S. Al-Marri as ‘the point of contact for AQ operatives arriving in the US for September 11 follow-on operations.’ KSM described Al-Marri as ‘the perfect sleeper agent because he has studied in the United States, had no criminal record, and had a family with whom he could travel.’... The Qatari national had returned to the United States on Sept. 10, 2001, to pick up a graduate degree in computer information systems from Peoria’s Bradley University.... Al-Marri’s apartment was filled with Islamic jihadist materials. His computer included bookmarked Web sites for hazardous chemicals, computer hacking and fake IDs, according to court documents. Bookmarks in an almanac marked entries for dams, reservoirs and railroads.” ———— The IL General Assembly: terrorist aides
Illinois Leader ^ | December 31, 2003 | JILL STANEK
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Khalid Mohammed was allegedly arrested in the home of an elderly bacteriologist, Abdul Qadoos Khan. KSM’s laptop with undated anthrax spraydrying production instructions was allegedly found in the home. There is no indication, however, that Dr. Khan had the relevant skills to weaponize the product used in the second batch of mailings in the US. The family stridently denies even that KSM was arrested in the home.——— “No Attacks Since 9/11? Al Qaeda was way ahead of what the U.S. understood its expertise and potential to be.,” By Cliff Kincaid, AIM, May 6, 2005
MAY 2003 : (AL-MARRI NAMED IN GRAND JURY INDICTMENT ACCUSING HIM OF LYING & CREDIT CARD FRAUD) Initially held as a material witness in the September 11 probe, Al-Marri was named in May in a grand jury indictment handed up in Peoria, Ill., accusing him of making false statements to the FBI and of credit-card fraud. —————— Terror suspect named as ‘enemy combatant’,”By Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, Published June 24, 2003
JUNE 24, 2003 : (REPORT : AL MARRI WAS INVOLVED IN “SECOND WAVE” PLOT - See KSM, ILLINOIS CELL) June 24— The Qatari man designated an enemy combatant by the Bush administration was planning another Sept. 11 attack, sources told ABCNEWS. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, 37, was deemed an enemy combatant by the Bush administration on Monday after officials said he was positively identified by an al Qaeda detainee as being part of a planned second wave of terror attacks on the United States. Government officials said they believed al Qaeda’s top leadership sent Al-Marri to the United States to coordinate a new round of attacks.
“Al-Marri was sent to the United States as a facilitator for other al Qaeda individuals who would come in to conduct follow-on attacks,” Attorney General John Ashcroft told ABCNEWS.
Sources told ABCNEWS that recently captured senior al Qaeda operative Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confirmed Al-Marri’s mission to U.S. officials. Mohammed has provided a great deal of information about al Qaeda’s presence in the United States, officials said.
Government officials told ABCNEWS that Al-Marri — a Qatari native who had been living in Peoria, Ill. — repeatedly tried to contact an al Qaeda leader suspected of helping finance the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. Officials said that when FBI agents searched Al-Marri’s Peoria home, they found dozens of credit card numbers on his laptop, information on toxic chemicals, and an almanac with a variety of potential attack targets, including dams and railroads.
Al-Marri had been in custody in the civilian court system since December 2001, first as a material witness and later on charges of lying to the FBI and credit card fraud. ....
As a designated enemy combatant, Al-Marri is in the custody of the Defense Department, has no right to legal representation afforded defendants in civilian court and could be held by the military indefinitely, possibly to face trial by military tribunal.
Sources told ABCNEWS that government officials transferred Al-Marri to military custody for two reasons: They want to try to force him to talk, and in civilian court defense attorneys for Al-Marri would be able to call senior al Qaeda officials as witnesses. Government officials do not want al Qaeda leaders to testify about classified information in open court. -—————Planning Another 9/11 - Sources: ‘Enemy Combatant’ Was Plotting New Round of U.S. Attacks
ABC News ^ | June 24, 2003
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they found dozens of credit card numbers on his laptop, information on toxic chemicals, and an almanac with a variety of potential attack targets, including dams and railroads.
I think whatever they found on this guy has something to do with the Texas alert.
1 posted on 06/24/2003 5:47:48 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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I think it’s more of a tip from Khalid now that he’s talking than anything else. Al-Marri was sent over here right before 9/11 and has been in custody ever since December 2001. He also supposedly knows how to whip up cyanide gas, which is a Very Bad Thing if he gets in contact with other US cell members. So while that would put him out of the loop as far any post-December 2001 plots go, it’s still reason enough to take him off the streets for awhile.———2 posted on 06/24/2003 5:53:09 PM PDT by Angelus Errare | To 1
JUNE 2003 : (USA : TERROR CELL CIRCUIT) Peoria and Champaign are part of a seven-city “circuit” that moves and disperses terrorists to specific sites across the nation, says Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy...
After the FBI seminar, Sheriff McCoy introduced himself to the speaker/agent who then told McCoy about a “circuit” that runs from the West to East coasts. The terrorists enter the United States in San Francisco and Los Angeles, then move to Phoenix, then Denver. From there, some head to Peoria and Champaign. Some terrorists remain in those communities, while others head on to New York City....
McCoy says al-Qaida ops in central Illinois have been performing work similar to al-Marri: raising money and working computers. That information dovetails with a June report in Newsweek magazine, which cited FBI sources in pegging the Midwest (specifically Peoria) as the brains of terrorist activity in America. McCoy says, “I’m not saying Peoria is condemned to die by terrorists. But we need to be vigilant.” —————Peoria part of terrorist ‘circuit’, Peoria Journal Star ^ | 12/28/03 | Phil Luciano
JUNE 2003 : (AL MARRI IS NAMED AN ENEMY COMBATANT — See ILLINOIS CELL) President Bush named al-Marri an enemy combatant, one of just three nationwide, a designation that pulled him out of the civilian court system, put him under military control and stripped him of most Constitutional rights.
AUGUST 2006 : (JUDGE DENIES ALI SALEH KAHLEH AL MARRI’S HABEAS CORPUS PETITION) Last month [August 2006], he [Ali Saleh Kahleh al Marri] lost his battle when a federal judge in Charleston, S.C., denied his habeas corpus petition, the legal way a prisoner can challenge his incarceration. His attorneys have already filed motions to appeal that decision to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. ...While the government has yet to prove in a court, civil or military, why it thinks al-Marri is a terrorist, authorities point to an 18-page declassified statement that claims al-Marri had information regarding poisons, toxins and computer hacking that “far exceeds the interests of a merely curious individual.” [* Don’t forget there is evidence he swore the bayat to bin Laden and expressed a desire to become a martyr?]-—— “ Ex-Peorian Remains Jailed As An Enemy Combatant,” by ANDY KRAVETZ, PJStar.com, 9/8/06
SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 : (WOT : AL MARRI IS THE ONLY NAMED ENEMY COMBATANT STILL IN CUSTODY-— BRIDGEVIEW CELL) Al-Marri today is the only named enemy combatant so designated by President Bush who remains in custody. For the past three years, he has been held in solitary confinement at a Naval brig in South Carolina. Repeated legal attempts challenging his detention and his living conditions have failed. It does not appear likely the Qatari national will be released anytime soon. ...Among the allegations are:
- that he was to hack into the main computers of U.S. banks to wipe out balances and otherwise wreak havoc with banking records in order to damage the U.S. economy.
- that he met Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, at a terrorist training camp and pledged his loyalty to him.
- that al-Marri was running a credit card scam to help fund al-Qaida. He has also has been linked to Mohammed Atta, one of the men who hijacked a plane used in the attacks, and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, whom federal officials have dubbed the hijackers’ money man. -—— “ Ex-Peorian Remains Jailed As An Enemy Combatant,” by ANDY KRAVETZ, PJStar.com, 9/8/06
Put this guy’s timeline into te nuclear trafficking timeline and the Global Relief terror-charity timeline and the Padilla-Shukrijumah timelines and things start fitting together in very disturbing ways.