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Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat
World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

Posted on 02/05/2004 8:31:17 PM PST by Mossad1967

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SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.

The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.


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To: Cindy
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXACT QUOTE:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040211-5.html

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 11, 2004

Fact Sheet: Strengthening International Efforts Against WMD Proliferation








"There is a consensus among nations that proliferation cannot be tolerated. Yet this consensus means little unless it is translated into action. Every civilized nation has a stake in preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction."

President George W. Bush, February 11, 2004


Presidential Action

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) poses the most serious danger to the peace of the world. Chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists or outlaw regimes could bring catastrophic harm to America and the international community. Recent developments, as highlighted by the President today, demonstrate the new, complex, and challenging threats to the international community from WMD.

President Bush today proposed seven new steps to help combat the development and spread of weapons of mass destruction. The policies will:

Improve and modernize nonproliferation laws to address new and changing threats;


Restrict the sale and transport of nuclear technologies and equipment;

Close a loophole in the nuclear nonproliferation regimes that allow states to pursue WMD under the false cloak of legitimacy; and

Expand efforts to secure and destroy nuclear weapons and materials.

Policy Recommendations

Law Enforcement Cooperation

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), announced by President Bush in May 2003, currently focuses on taking practical steps to interdict proliferation shipments of WMD, delivery systems, and related materials at sea, in the air, or on land.

The President proposes that participants in the PSI and other willing nations expand their focus and use Interpol and other mechanisms for law enforcement cooperation to take additional actions to pursue proliferators and end their operations.

Swift Passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution

The President calls for swift passage of the resolution he proposed in September 2003, requiring all states to criminalize proliferation, enact strict export controls, and secure sensitive materials within their borders.

Expansion of G-8 Global Partnership

To ensure the nations of the world are doing all they can to secure and eliminate WMD and dangerous materials, the President proposes the expansion -- in funds, donors, and recipients -- of the G-8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.

The Partnership originally provided $20 billion in nonproliferation assistance to the former Soviet Union, it should now also work to reduce and secure dangerous materials elsewhere in the world.

Controls Against Enrichment and Reprocessing

Currently, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty allows states like Iran to develop the capability to produce weapons material under the cover of peaceful programs by pursuing a nuclear enrichment and reprocessing capability. The world must create a safe orderly system to fuel civilian nuclear reactors without adding to the danger of nuclear proliferation.

The President has proposed that the members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group ensure that states which renounce enrichment and reprocessing technologies have reliable access, at reasonable cost, to fuel for civilian reactors.

The 40 states in the Nuclear Suppliers Group should refuse to sell uranium enrichment or reprocessing equipment or technology to any state that does not already possess full-scale, functioning enrichment or reprocessing plants.

Strengthening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

The President offers three key proposals to strengthen the IAEA in its work against nuclear proliferation.

First, all states should sign the IAEA Additional Protocol, which greatly expands the Agency's tools to detect clandestine nuclear activities. Signing of the Additional Protocol should be a condition for countries seeking equipment for their civilian nuclear programs by next year.

Second, the IAEA Board of Governors should create a special committee on safeguards and verification, to improve the organization's ability to monitor and enforce compliance with nuclear nonproliferation obligations.

Finally, no state under investigation for proliferation violations should be allowed to serve or continue serving on the IAEA Board of Governors or on the new special committee.

Key Accomplishments

Today, President Bush welcomed key accomplishments in our determined efforts to prevent and protect against the proliferation of WMD.

Abdul Qadeer (A.Q.) Khan Network

The President provided details on the activities of A. Q. Khan, who led an extensive international network for the proliferation of nuclear materials and knowledge. The President also discussed the actions of the U.S. and British governments in penetrating and ultimately shutting down this network:

Khan and his associates used a factory in Malaysia to manufacture key parts for centrifuges, and purchased other necessary parts through network operatives based in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Libya, Iran, and North Korea were customers of the Khan network, and several other countries expressed an interest in Khan's services.

Over several years, American and British intelligence services gradually uncovered the network's reach, and identified its key experts, agents, and financial network. This work involved substantial risk -- and all Americans can be proud of the hard work and dedication of our fine intelligence professionals.

As a result of our penetration of the network, American and British intelligence identified and tracked a shipment of advanced centrifuge parts. As part of the PSI, German and Italian authorities stopped the ship as it was heading for Libya, seizing several containers filled with parts for sophisticated centrifuges manufactured at the Malaysia facility.

The Government of Pakistan is interrogating the network's members, and learning critical details that will help prevent the network from ever operating again. President Musharraf has promised to share all the information he learns about the Khan network, and has assured us that his country will never again be a source of proliferation.

Libya

The President welcomed the historic decision of Colonel Qadhafi to end his weapons of mass destruction programs, and expects other regimes to follow his example. On December 19, 2003, Libya pledged to:

Eliminate all elements of its chemical and nuclear weapons programs;

Declare all nuclear activities to the IAEA;

Eliminate ballistic missiles with more than 300 km range when carrying a payload of 500 kg;


Accept international inspections to ensure Libya's complete adherence to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and sign the IAEA Additional Protocol; and

Eliminate all chemical weapons stocks and munitions, and accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Libya is now working in partnership with the United States, United Kingdom, the IAEA, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on implementing those commitments.

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2,501 posted on 02/11/2004 5:37:08 PM PST by Cindy
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To: rickylc
Sounds more than strange. Find out if the place is open for business tomorrow. That would tell us something.
2,502 posted on 02/11/2004 5:38:01 PM PST by Revel
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To: rickylc
It is true that they do deny too many of the reports on the white powders.

But will admit that I shipped an ounce or so of white powder last year in a brown envelope.............to a soapmaker, who needed it as soon as possible for her cosmetic recipe.

It was Fuller's Earth, a white clay, for cosmetics it is a white powder.


I worried until it got there, as it could have caused questions if it got loose.

Seemed the thing to do at the time.........I had it and Jonee needed it.
2,503 posted on 02/11/2004 5:40:47 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray more Prayers than ever before and remember to shut up and listen to God' answers!)
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To: liz44040
Maybe if you look for pocket protectors you find the nest team;)
2,504 posted on 02/11/2004 5:40:47 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: nicmarlo
Thanks nicmarlo for your comments and your interest in this thread.
2,505 posted on 02/11/2004 5:43:56 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: jerseygirl
I thought the phrase "dog disease" was just one of those translation things. Like them maybe calling us rabid and the translation comes out as dog disease? Maybe someone who know arabic could help with that.
2,506 posted on 02/11/2004 5:45:40 PM PST by knak (wasknaknowknid)
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To: MamaDearest
Heck if I know. The posting was made from an IP address assigned to American University in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2,507 posted on 02/11/2004 5:47:31 PM PST by StillProud2BeFree (http://www.terrorfacts.com for Al Qaeda playing cards featuring Daleel as Joker)
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To: Cindy
Sixty years ago these people would have been hanged as traitors!

Celebrating 9/11 at the FBI

By Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 11, 2004


When linguist Sibel Dinez Edmonds showed up for her first day of work at the FBI, a week after the 9-11 attacks, she expected to find a somber atmosphere. Instead, she was offered cookies filled with dates from party bowls set out in the room where other Middle Eastern linguists with top-secret security clearance translate terror-related communications.

She knew the dessert is customarily served in the Middle East at weddings, births and other celebrations, and asked what the happy occasion was. To her shock, she was told the Arab linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous event. Right in front of her supervisor, one translator cheered:

"It's about time they got a taste of what they've been giving the Middle East."

She found out later that it was her supervisor's wife who helped organize the office party there at the bureau's Washington field office, just four blocks from the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

"This guy's wife brought the date-filled cookies for the celebration," Edmonds, 33, recalled.

At the time, the supervisor, Mike Feghali, a naturalized
U.S. citizen from Beirut, was in charge of the FBI's Turkish and Farsi desks.

But he's been promoted since then, and now also runs the all-important Arabic desk, which is key to intercepting the next al-Qaida plot.

It gets worse.

The language service squad is the front line in the FBI's war on terrorism, collecting all foreign language tips, information and terrorist threats to homeland security. Agents act on what the squad translates and reports. The sooner they get the information, the sooner they can thwart terrorist attacks. Investigators had missed clues to both the 2001 and 1993 World Trade Center attacks because they were buried in a backlog of untranslated wiretaps and documents in Arabic.

Despite the backlog, Feghali told Edmonds and other translators to just let the work pile higher, according to Edmonds. Why? Money. She says Feghali, who has recruited family and friends to work with him at the high-paying language unit, argued that Congress would approve an even bigger budget for it if they could continue to show big backlogs.

"We were told to take long breaks, to slow down translations, and to simply say 'no' to those field agents calling us to beg for speedy translations so that they could go on with their investigations and interrogations of those they had detained," said Edmonds, who was fired without specified cause by the FBI after she reported breaches in security, mistranslations and potential espionage by Middle Eastern colleagues.

She claims Feghali actually tampered with her work to slow her down.

"My supervisor went as far as getting into my work computer and deleting almost completed work so that I had to go back and start all over again," she said.

Edmonds, a Turkish-American who is not a practicing Muslim, made the allegations last month in a 9-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

She also claims that Feghali threatened to sue the bureau for racial discrimination, but dropped the suit once the bureau promoted him, says Edmonds and other sources. The FBI, which like the army suffers from a severe shortage of Arabic translators, instated a bureau-wide Muslim-sensitivity training program after 9-11.

Reached by phone at his Maryland home, Feghali was brusque and refused to talk about the allegations.

"I'm not at liberty to discuss this thing, OK?" he said before abruptly hanging up.

The spokesperson for the FBI's Washington field office, Debbie Weierman, did not return repeated phone calls.

Feghali, who holds several foreign language degrees, has been an FBI language specialist for several years. He was a key translator in the government's case against al-Qaida operatives charged in the U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya, and even testified in court.

Sources say he is planning to move back to Lebanon
.

A key player in the 9-11 plot and the likely pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, the suicide plane that crashed apparently en route to the U.S. Capitol, was Ziad Samir Jarrah, a Lebanese.

Edmonds has also complained about Feghali and other Middle Eastern translators to the Justice Department inspector general.

And on Wednesday, she is scheduled to give a detailed briefing to members of the 9-11 commission in a secure room here.

She claims terrorist "investigations are being compromised," and has demanded an independent probe of the FBI's language department.

"If there were, and are, persons within the language department that either intentionally prevented translation because of their agendas, or persons who were, and are, not qualified to properly translate, it is likely that terrorist communications prior to 9-11 were missed; and it is likely that current and future terrorist communications will likewise be missed," Edmonds wrote Justice's Inspector General Glenn A. Fine in a Jan. 5 letter. "I have alleged, and the FBI has confirmed (to Senate investigators), that there are in fact such persons in the language department."

Fine still has not released the findings of his internal probe, even though Edmonds first filed her complaint with his office almost two years ago. Speaking for Fine, Justice official Carol Ochoa said the investigation is "still ongoing."

"We are working hard to complete it expeditiously," she said in a Jan. 6 letter to Edmonds.

Paul Sperry, formerly of Investor's Business Daily, is Washington bureau chief of WorldNetDaily.com and author of the new book "Crude Politics."
2,508 posted on 02/11/2004 5:50:11 PM PST by thecabal (DU is short for DemocraticUnderground.com. It is sort of like FR's evil yet retarded twin brother.)
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To: rickylc
it exploded?
2,511 posted on 02/11/2004 5:51:08 PM PST by knak (wasknaknowknid)
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To: TexKat
just thought you all might need some encouragement, if there's been many hit-and-run types criticizing this thread's existance; you need to know there are probably many others like me who lurk here (probably at least every other day) and skim through and don't post, just to see what's going on (as you know, the media highlights very little about this topic....which is important, IMHO).

I especially value how you all seem to have time to go to other websites and report back on who's posting what (I'm especially thinking of that character..EOL (?) lol).
2,512 posted on 02/11/2004 5:51:29 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Revel
That's the other strange part, it's not one place, but 3 that were shut down.

How did a package at one location shut down 2 others?

Perhaps I'm missing something.
2,513 posted on 02/11/2004 5:51:32 PM PST by rickylc
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To: StillProud2BeFree
He think he is reffering to something happening against our troops in the middle east on this one.
2,514 posted on 02/11/2004 5:52:08 PM PST by Revel
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To: thecabal
Bravo - more pictures just like these!
2,515 posted on 02/11/2004 5:54:21 PM PST by MamaDearest (Lets get them before they get us!)
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To: rickylc
Three post offices closed; workers treated because of powder
2,516 posted on 02/11/2004 5:56:01 PM PST by knak (wasknaknowknid)
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To: knak
"Burst" is the word they used, sounds like it happend while just sitting there.

The package, addressed to Belgium and with no return address, was left at the West Street branch around noon by a woman. It later burst open and dispersed the white power.
2,517 posted on 02/11/2004 5:58:40 PM PST by rickylc
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To: Revel
"handwriting analysis"

Interesting idea but there would have to be some specific adaptions given the primary language would be written in a different alphabet and in a different direction.

I think voice analysis and pupil reaction should be used in conjunction.
2,518 posted on 02/11/2004 6:00:41 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: knak
That's the same story, but it differs in some details that make me think this was possibly two seperate instances.

In the first story, they say the package was addressed to Belgium, and "burst" after she dropped it off.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--brf-whitepowder0211feb11,0,1465027.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia

In the second one,(the one you linked and I also did in my second post about it) they say the package was addressed to Geneva, Switzerland and was leaking powder, also that the woman fled.

Could just be confusion, sounds like a lot going on.



2,519 posted on 02/11/2004 6:06:40 PM PST by rickylc
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To: rickylc
In the link I just posted to you about the three offices being closed it says this:
The main post office on Franklin Street was also closed after a worker who had been at the branch office entered the main office, Moore said. A third branch was closed as a precaution.

They closed the 2nd one just because someone went there from the first?? That's quite creepy!

2,520 posted on 02/11/2004 6:06:50 PM PST by knak (wasknaknowknid)
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