OK folks, you saw it. If it happens now, it's their fault. |
Posted on 09/17/2001 6:29:50 AM PDT by truthandlife
Mossad officials traveled to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to 200 terrorists was planning a major operation, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph here yesterday.
The paper said the Israeli officials specifically warned their counterparts in Washington that "large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent." They offered no specific information about targets, but they did link the plot to Afghanistan-based terrorist Osama bin Laden, and they told the Americans there were "strong grounds" for suspecting Iraqi involvement.
A US administration official told the paper that it was "quite credible" that the CIA did not heed the Mossad warning: "It has a history of being over-cautious about Israeli information." But the official noted that "if this is true, then the refusal to take it seriously will mean heads will roll."
In another development, the Sunday Times reported that an account at a branch of Barclays Bank in the London district of Notting Hill was used by a suspected bin Laden lieutenant to finance and disseminate Bin Laden's fatwas (religious rulings) and to maintain contacts with various elements in bin Laden's global network.
The account was held by Saudi dissident Khalid al-Fawwaz, who is currently being held in custody awaiting the outcome of extradition proceedings to the United States on charges of conspiring with bin Laden to murder Americans.
The Barclays account is understood to form part of a web of bank accounts and front companies used by bin Laden to underwrite his Al Qaida terror network.
Court documents link Fawwaz to a Bin Laden fatwa calling for the death of American civilians "anywhere in the world they can be found," which was faxed directly to him by Bin Laden.
Fawwaz was personally appointed by bin Laden to set up and run the London-based Advice and Reformation Committee. The organization was ostensibly dedicated to war-relief work, but British and US officials now believe it was in fact a component in Bin Laden's terror network.
Fawwaz is also thought to have been directly involved in the terrorist cell that perpetrated the simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998. More than 200 people died in those attacks.
OK folks, you saw it. If it happens now, it's their fault. |
I would say that your education was...... Flawed!
What major operation??? Still to occur??
Do you recall early, after the WTC and Pentagon attacks, Ashcroft and others saying they were looking for approximately 200 members of sleeper cell groups in the USA?
I've wondered about that many times over the last 5-6 years.
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Bttt
Sorry, I didn't know that. I accidentally stopped the Mossad briefings while messing around with my spam filter one day. Now I don't know how to turn them back on.
That wouldn't matter if we had# 11 by E. Pluribus Unum
1) kept known terrorists out of the country
2) had not let known terrorists attend US flight schools
3) had strong, securely-locked doors on cockpits
4) Allowed aircraft crew to carry weapons.
Bad play, old chap.
We can't do anything about England.
Boardings in America are our responsibility.
Just one change would stop any highjacking.
Allow the crew to carry weapons.
Expecially pilots, most of whom learned to fly in the armed forces, where they were expected to have a weapon.
I remember reading that the Japanese never considered landing on American soil, because we had a reputation as "gangsters," with everyone owning a gun.
There were also the stories of our troops in World War 2, who with very little training compared to European standards, were very effective due to knowing how to handle weapons before they entered military service.
An armed population works for Israel, too. The reason that Palestinians murder with a bomb instead of a firearm is that any Palestinian attacker would be seriously outnumbered by his opponents. Thus, Palestinians sneak around with bombs, to give themselves a greater chance of success.
I bet there's a lot of truth in what you say, rebdov.
It could have been stopped by waiting to see if the idiot with the knife was actually crazy enough to kill the stewardess, and when he did, killing the fool with your gun.
Maybe you didn't pay attention on your Israeli airline flight. Weapons are allowed to the crew. It's not like our purely "symbolic" method of walking through a metal detector.
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I hereby warn the FBI and the CIA that something bad is going to happen one of these days. It will involve actual Bad Guys doing something bad.