Posted on 08/30/2003 1:21:37 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:07:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
.... Mr. Williams stated in the memorandum that he had identified a link between one Middle Eastern man taking flight lessons at a Phoenix-area flight school and Bakri's Al-Muhajiroun.
The memorandum requested that the FBI launch an investigation of Islamist radicals who were taking flight lessons.
The memorandum was ignored by FBI headquarters and ...
The "Magnificent 19" image is still being served up from Germany:
THE STAR.com - THE TORONTO STAR (from CANADIAN PRESS): "20th MAN SUSPECTED OF AL QAEDA TIES ARRESTED: CBC" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police in Toronto have arrested another man suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda, bring the number of arrests to 20, CBC-TV's The National reported Friday. Immigration officials remained tight-lipped, but friends of the man told the CBC he is a Pakistani student, in his late 20s, and in Canada to study at the Ottawa Business College. Investigators say the business college is illegitimate and no longer exists. Police arrested 19 men on Aug. 14 as part of a massive sweep called Project Thread. No criminal charges have been laid. Immigration and RCMP officials allege the men are linked to a sleeper terrorist cell, may have experimented with explosives and wanted to find out the measurements of prominent buildings in Canada, including the CN Tower. An adjudicator granted bail Thursday to two of the men, citing the lack of any concrete evidence linking any of the 19 men to terrorism.") (August 29, 2003) (Read More...)
CANADA.com (CANWEST NEWS SERVICE): "POLICE HUNT MORE TERROR SUSPECTS 'Security Concerns' Surround Agent Connected to Phoney Business School" by Stewart Bell, CanWest News Service (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TORONTO -- Police are hunting for the "agent" at the centre of a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist sleeper cell that authorities say scouted the CN Tower and Pickering nuclear plant, an official revealed yesterday. An Immigration official described the agent as the link between 19 men arrested in a major counter-terrorism sweep in Toronto and the bogus business school that sold them fraudulent documents.") (August 29, 2003) (Read More...)
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